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Author Dinwiddy, Kirsten Egging, author.

Title An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire / by Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy and Nick Stoodley ; with contributions by Catherine Barnett [and 6 others] ; illustrations by Rob Goller [and 3 others].

Publication Info. Salisbury : Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 176 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps, color plans.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Wessex Archaeology report ; 37
Wessex Archaeology report ; no. 37.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176).
Contents List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Foreign language summaries; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Project background; Location, topography and geology; Archaeological and historical background; Methodology; Chapter 2: The Cemetery; Soil sequence; The cemetery features; Inhumation graves and burials; Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits; Other cemetery features; Grave catalogue; Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits; Unstratified metalwork -- probable grave goods; Chapter 3: Human Skeletal Material.
Unburnt human boneMethods; Results; Concluding remarks; Cremated human bone and aspects of the cremation rite; Methods; Results and discussion; Concluding remarks; Chapter 4: Finds; Bed burial (grave 96); Headboard stays; Double cleats; Eyelets or split spiked loops; Grave cover; Discussion; Metalwork; Weapons; Personal equipment; Vessels; Jewellery and dress accessories; Discussion; Mineral-preserved organics and compositional analysis of metalwork; Condition of the metalwork; Investigative conservation; Metallographic examination of knives; Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion.
ConclusionCoins; Catalogue; Beads; Glass beads; Amber beads; Other beads; Distribution of beads; Discussion; Pottery; Cremation graves; Inhumation graves; Other features; Charcoal; Methods; Results; Chapter 5: Discussion of Burial Practices; Cemetery layout and organisation; Burial practice; Other aspects of burial practice; Grave construction and embellishment; Cemetery structures; Orientation; Multiple burial; Burial position; Social structure and community identity; Gender and age; Social hierarchy; Community and household identity; Collingbourne Ducis in the wider landscape; Appendices.
Appendix 1. Catalogue by grave of all material examined and analysed for mineral-preserved organics (MPO)Appendix 2. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of the metalwork; Bibliography.
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Subject Collingbourne Ducis (England) -- Antiquities.
Wiltshire (England) -- Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Stoodley, Nick, author.
Barnett, Catherine, contributor.
Goller, Rob, illustrator.
Other Form: Print version: Dinwiddy, Kirsten Egging. Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire. Salisbury : Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 2016 9781911137009 (OCoLC)952161792
ISBN 9781911137016 (electronic book)
1911137018 (electronic book)
9781911137009
191113700X