Identity, kinship and community: early medieval death and burial across south-eastern and north-western England
Research seminar hosted by Oxford Archaeology
Held online on July 7, 2021
Oxford Archaeology’s fifth research seminar focused on early medieval cemeteries in south-eastern and north-western England. Using evidence from Oxford Archaeology’s excavations in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Cumbria spanning the late 5th to the 11th centuries AD, this seminar explored themes across sites of varying character, ranging from the pre-Christian period to the early monastic and Anglo-Scandinavian era. It took the opportunity to put forward some new questions relating to a range of issues, including community, ethnicity, burial expression, chronology and transition, amongst others.
There are three featured speakers:
Stuart Ladd, “The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Hatherdene Close, Cherry Hinton (late 5th/6th to early 7th century)”
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Toby Martin, “Creating community in mortuary landscapes: the early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Hatherdene Close, North-west Ely and Eye Airfield”
Adam Parsons, “The early medieval cemeteries at Dacre, Workington and Cumwhitton in context (7th to 11th century)”
Identity, kinship and community: early medieval death and burial across south-eastern and north-western England
Research seminar hosted by Oxford Archaeology
Held online on July 7, 2021
Oxford Archaeology’s fifth research seminar focused on early medieval cemeteries in south-eastern and north-western England. Using evidence from Oxford Archaeology’s excavations in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Cumbria spanning the late 5th to the 11th centuries AD, this seminar explored themes across sites of varying character, ranging from the pre-Christian period to the early monastic and Anglo-Scandinavian era. It took the opportunity to put forward some new questions relating to a range of issues, including community, ethnicity, burial expression, chronology and transition, amongst others.
There are three featured speakers:
Stuart Ladd, “The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Hatherdene Close, Cherry Hinton (late 5th/6th to early 7th century)”
Toby Martin, “Creating community in mortuary landscapes: the early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Hatherdene Close, North-west Ely and Eye Airfield”
Adam Parsons, “The early medieval cemeteries at Dacre, Workington and Cumwhitton in context (7th to 11th century)”
This is followed by a panel discussion
Click here to visit the Oxford Archaeology website
Top Image: St Michael’s Church, Workington – photo by Alexander P Kapp / Wikimedia Commons
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