Burial, Landscape and Identity in Early Medieval Wessex - 9781783274178

Burial, Landscape and Identity in Early Medieval WessexAuthor(s): Kate Mees\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783274178, 978-1783274178\nSynopsis\nMulti-disciplinary investigation of Anglo-Saxon funerary traditions.\n\nBurial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their dead, within the constraints of the environmentaland social milieu, reveal much about this transformational era.\n This book offers a pioneering exploration of the ways in which the cultural and physical environment influenced funerary traditions during the period c. AD [tel], in the region which came to form the leading Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. This was a diverse landscape rich in ancient remains, in the form of imposing earthworks, enigmatic megaliths and vestiges of Roman occupation. Employing archaeologi.