Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries 1979: The Fourth Anglo-Saxon Symposium at Oxford

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Blank Page Front Cover Copyright Title Page Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Editorial Preface Section A: Survey of Subject 1. The Present State of Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Studies 2. Merovingian Cemetery Studies and Some Implications for Anglo-Saxon England Section B: Theoretical Approaches and Applications 3. Death, Culture, and Society: A Prehistorian's Perspective 4. Wealth and Social Structure: A Matter of Life and Death 5. Material Symbolism and Social Relations in Mortuary Studies 6. Social Structure and Cemeteries: A Critical Appraisal 7. Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Some Suggestions for Research Section C: Methodology and Techniques 8. Computers and Cemeteries: Opportunities and Limitations 9. Anglo-Saxon Cremation Cemeteries, with Particular Reference to Spong Hill, Norfolk 10. Anglo-Saxon Burials: Pottery, Production and Social Status 11. Spong Hill Cremations 12. Problems of Analysis and Interpretation of Skeletal Remains 13. The Excavation of Inhumation Burials 14. Some Aspects of the Analysis and Publication of An Inhumation Cemetery Section D: Area and Site Studies 15. The Saxon Cemeteries of Sussex 16. Anglo-Saxons in Lindsey and the East Riding of Yorkshire in the Fifth Century 17. A Restatement of Evidence from Bernician Anglo-Saxon Burials 18. An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Bargates, Christchurch, Dorset Section E: Sutton Hoo 19. Sutton Hoo Opinions - Forty Years After 20. Sutton Hoo - Comment 21. Sutton Hoo - Comment Two 22. Sutton Hoo - Comment Three 23. The Cremation in the Ship at Sutton Hoo: A Postscript 23bis. The Sutton Hoo Coffin 24. The Sutton Hoo Purse: Analysing the Weights of its Contents Section F: Later Cemeteries 25. A Christian Anglo-Saxon Graveyard at Raunds, Northamptonshire 26. The Scandinavian Viking-Age Burials of England - Some Problems of Interpretation 27. The Churchyard in Eastern England, AD 900-1100: Some LInes of Development