Finding No | JL/93/36b page 199 |
Author | Hadley, D M |
Title | Burial practices in the northern Danelaw, c.650-1100 |
Date | Sep 2000 |
Description | Includes references to the burial sites and customs in the East Riding and specific mention of the recently excavated burial mound at Thwing. |
Abstract | A study of where the dead were buried in the middle and later Anglo-Saxon centuries in the Northern Danelaw (Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire) and how they were celebrated. Examines the transition from Pagan Anglo-Saxon cemeteries characaterised by cremation and/or inhumation with grave goods, to churchyard burial without grave goods. |
Type | Local Studies/Article |
Series | Northern History volume 36 [XXXVI] volume2 |
Publisher | The School of History, The University of Leeds |
PubDate | 2000 |
AccessStatus | Open |
Subject | CEMETERIES |
ANGLO SAXONS |
DANELAW |