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A Conversion-period burial in an ancient landscape: a high-status female grave near the Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire/Warwickshire
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In March 2015, a metal detector user uncovered several early medieval artefacts from land adjacent to the Rollright Stones, a major prehistoric complex that straddles the Oxfordshire—Warwickshire border (O.S. SP 2963 3089). He alerted the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the well-preserved burial of a female, aged around 25–35 years and aligned South-North, was subsequently excavated (Fig. 11.1).1 The grave—which was shallow, undisturbed (apart from a small area of disturbance near the skull c...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1163/9789004421899_013
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Brill Publisher's website
- Pages:
- 231–244
- Series:
- Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages
- Series number:
- 26
- Host title:
- The Land of the English Kin: Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-23
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978-90-04-42189-9
- ISSN:
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1569-1462
- Source identifiers:
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688993
- ISBN:
- 978-90-04-34949-0
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- English
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- Chapter
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- pubs:688993
- Deposit date:
- 2017-04-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Helena Hamerow
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Helena Hamerow, 2020. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence
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