With contributions from H. M. Appleyard, Elisabeth Crowfoot, Stuart Friedenson, Vera Friedenson, Brian Gilmour, Frances Healy, Catherine Johns, Graeme Lawson, Jacqueline I. Mckinley, D. F. Mackreth, Penelope Walton, Karen Wardley and P. T. Wilthew.
The south-western part of this Early Saxon cemetery produced about 365 inhumations and 9 cremations. The bone preservation was poor, so that the burials were sexed almost entirely on the evidence of grave-goods. In two cases, individual inhumations were surrounded by ring-ditches, two other penannular ditches were found, and a square slot may have been the foundation of a timber building, related to the cemetery. The catalogue contains plans of each inhumation, with the positions of the grave-goods. These are described in Volume 1, but illustrated in Volume 2, as grave-groups. Specialists' reports appear in Volume 1, including an extensive analysis of the lyre remains from Inhumation 97.
Author(s): Barbara Green, Andrew Rogerson, Susan G. White
Series: East Anglian Archaeology, 36, 1
Publisher: The Norfolk Archaeological Unit
Year: 1987
Language: English
Pages: 222
City: Dereham
List of Contents, Volume I v
List of Plates v
List of Figures vi
List of Tables vi
Contents of Microfiche vi
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements vii
Preface viii
Editorial, by Peter Wade-Martins viii
Chapter 1: Introduction
I. Introduction 1
II. Circumstances and Methods of Excavation 5
Endnote 6
Chapter 2: Catalogue of Inhumations and Other Contexts
I. Notes on the Catalogue 9
II. Anglo-Saxon Pottery: Stamps and Fabrics, by Vera and Stuart Friedenson 13
Stamped pottery 13
Fabric 13
Unassociated pottery 15
III. Catalogue 35
Chapter 3: Specialists' Reports
I. Prehistoric Material, by Frances Healy 163
Struck flint 163
Pottery 163
II. A Note on the Roman Brooches, by D.F. Mackreth 165
Introduction 165
Comment on the penannular brooches 165
III. Report on the Lyre Remains from Grave 97, by Graeme Lawson 166
Endnotes 171
IV. Report on the Iron Sword from Grave 218, by Karen Wardley and Brian Gilmour (microfiche)
V. Analysis of Non-Ferrous Metal Objects, by P. T. Wilthew (microfiche)
VI. Report on the Textiles, by Elisabeth Crowfoot, with fibre identifications by H. M. Appleyard and dye tests by Penelope Walton 171
Introduction 171
Fibres, spinning and dyeing 171
Weaving 171
Leather 174
Clothing 174
Appendix: Tests for dyes on a braid from wrist-clasp J (Grave 360), by Penelope Walton 174
Catalogue 175
VII. Report on the Skeletal Material, by Jacqueline I. Mckinley 188
Age 188
Sex 188
Pathology 189
Cremated material 189
Bibliography 190
Index 193
Microfiche (17 pp.)
