Interrupting the pots; the excavation of Cleatham Anglo-Saxon cemetery

Reference & Research Book News, Feb, 2008

Interrupting the pots; the excavation of Cleatham Anglo-Saxon cemetery.

Leahy, Kevin.

Council /British Archaeology

2007

278 pages

$60.00

Paperback

CBA research report; 155

DA155

This archaeological report details the finds at an excavated Anglo-Saxon mixed-rite cemetery at Cleatham, in the parish of Manton, North Lincolnshire, UK. Excavated between 1984 and 1989, the site yielded 1204 urns and 62 inhumations, together with boundary ditches and other features. Material finds are described and the stratigraphic relationships of the urns are analyzed, allowing for the sequencing of their decorative styles. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.

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