IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 701: Later Anglo-Saxon Burial, c. 650–1100, III
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Jo Buckberry, Division of Archaeological, Geographical & Environmental Sciences, University of Bradford Annia K. Cherryson, Southhampton Archaeology Unit |
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| Moderator/Chair: | John Blair, Queen's College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 701-a | Charcoal Burial: A Late Anglo-Saxon Minority Burial Rite (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 701-b | Barrows, Funerary Sculpture, and Prayer: The Impact of the Church on the Commemoration of the Dead in Early Medieval Wessex, c. 650-1100 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 701-c | Burial Practices, Commemoration, and Social Display, 600-1100: Some Perspectives from Continental Northern Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Ecclesiastical History |
| Abstract | While Anglo-Saxon burials have long been the subject of mortuary analysis, the largely unfurnished burials in later Anglo-Saxon periods have tended to be overlooked. Recent research has demonstrated that a wide variety of burial practices were used in the late Anglo-Saxon period. This session aims to bring together researchers working on later Anglo-Saxon burial to obtain a clearer understanding of the variety of burial practices and burial locations utilised during this period, the impact of the Church on burial and how burial and commemoration could be used to reflect the social identity of the deceased and/or their families. |