Spong Hill IX: Chronology and Synthesis
Author: Catherine Hills and Sam Lucy Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Spong Hill, with over 2500 cremations, remains the largest early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery to have been excavated in Britain. This volume presents the long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site. It gives a detailed overview of the artefactual evidence, which includes over 1200 objects of bone, antler and ivory.
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Spong Hill, with over 2500 cremations, remains the largest early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery to have been excavated in Britain. This volume presents the long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site. It gives a detailed overview of the artefactual evidence, which includes over 1200 objects of bone, antler and ivory.
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Spong Hill, with over 2500 cremations, remains the largest early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery to have been excavated in Britain. This volume presents the long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site. It gives a detailed overview of the artefactual evidence, which includes over 1200 objects of bone, antler and ivory. Using this information, together with programmes of correspondence analysis of the cremation urns and the grave-goods, a revised phasing and chronology of the site is offered, which argues that it is largely fifth-century in date. The implications of this revised dating for interpretations of the early medieval period in Britain and further afield are explored in full.
Critic Reviews
“"...what a triumph it is. At last it is possible to see, in this splendid book, the cemetery as a whole." "This important publication changes our perceptions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England. Get a copy and read it."”
The volume is dense reading but highly informative,and includes a wealth of detailed tables, mapsand appendices for anyone interested in conductingadditional analysis on the raw data. Catherine Hillsand Sam Lucy should also be applauded for makinggood use of continental scholarship on artefacttypologies central to their interest in measuringmigration, spatial and social patterning, and genderandage-associations of goods included in cremationand inhumation graves. Antiquity
“…what a triumph it is. At last it is possible to see, in this splendid book, the cemetery as a whole.”“This important publication changes our perceptions of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England. Get a copy and read it.” British Archaeology
About the Author
Sam Lucy is in charge of post-excavation and publication at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. Her research interests are mainly in Anglo-Saxon material culture and funerary archaeology.
Spong Hill, with over 2500 cremations, remains the largest early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery to have been excavated in Britain. This volume presents the long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site. It gives a detailed overview of the artefactual evidence, which includes over 1200 objects of bone, antler and ivory. Using this information, together with programmes of correspondence analysis of the cremation urns and the grave-goods, a revised phasing and chronology of the site is offered, which argues that it is largely fifth-century in date. The implications of this revised dating for interpretations of the early medieval period in Britain and further afield are explored in full.
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