Spong Hill IX: Chronology and Synthesis

ISBN-13: 9781902937625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 424 str.

Catherine Hills; Sam Lucy

Opis

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.