Finding NoJL/93/36b page 199
AuthorHadley, D M
TitleBurial practices in the northern Danelaw, c.650-1100
DateSep 2000
DescriptionIncludes references to the burial sites and customs in the East Riding and specific mention of the recently excavated burial mound at Thwing.
AbstractA 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.
TypeLocal Studies/Article
SeriesNorthern History volume 36 [XXXVI] volume2
PublisherThe School of History, The University of Leeds
PubDate2000
AccessStatusOpen
SubjectCEMETERIES
ANGLO SAXONS
DANELAW
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