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Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD

by Alex Bayliss, John Hines, Karen Hoilund Nielsen, Gerry McCormac, Christopher Scull

Funeral rites and ceremoniesEngland, social life and customsHistoryGrave goodsDatingCivilization, Anglo-SaxonMobilier funéraireDatation

The early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterised archaeologically by the regular deposition of artefacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has long been studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronological problems of the material than to solve them.

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