An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire

Excavations at Collingbourne Ducis revealed almost the full extent of a late 5th–7th century cemetery first recorded in 1974, providing one of the largest samples of burial remains from Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire. The cemetery lies 200 m to the north-east of a broadly contemporaneous settlement on lower lying ground next to the River Bourne.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Plates
• List of Tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Foreign language summaries
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Project background
  • Location, topography and geology
  • Archaeological and historical background
  • Methodology
• Chapter 2: The Cemetery
  • Soil sequence
  • The cemetery features
    • Inhumation graves and burials
    • Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits
    • Other cemetery features
  • Grave catalogue
  • Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits
  • Unstratified metalwork – probable grave goods
• Chapter 3: Human Skeletal Material
  • Unburnt human bone, by Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy
    • Methods
    • Results
    • Concluding remarks
  • Cremated human bone and aspects of the cremation rite, by Jacqueline I. McKinley
    • Methods
    • Results and discussion
    • Concluding remarks
• Chapter 4: Finds
  • Bed burial (grave 96), by Jacqui Watson
    • Headboard stays
    • Double cleats
    • Eyelets or split spiked loops
    • Grave cover
    • Discussion
  • Metalwork, by Nick Stoodley
    • Weapons
    • Personal equipment
    • Vessels
    • Jewellery and dress accessories
    • Discussion
  • Mineral-preserved organics and compositional analysis of metalwork, by Elizabeth McCormick
    • Condition of the metalwork
    • Investigative conservation
  • Metallographic examination of knives, by Eleanor Blakelock
    • Introduction
    • Methods
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
  • Coins, by Nicholas Cooke
    • Catalogue
  • Beads, by Lorraine Mepham
    • Glass beads
    • Amber beads
    • Other beads
    • Distribution of beads
    • Discussion
  • Pottery, by Lorraine Mepham
    • Cremation graves
    • Inhumation graves
    • Other features
  • Charcoal, by Catherine Barnett
    • Methods
    • Results
• Chapter 5: Discussion of Burial Practices
  • Cemetery layout and organisation
  • Burial practice
  • Other aspects of burial practice
    • Grave construction and embellishment
    • Cemetery structures
    • Orientation
    • Multiple burial
    • Burial position
  • Social structure and community identity
    • Gender and age
    • Social hierarchy
    • Community and household identity
  • Collingbourne Ducis in the wider landscape
• Appendices
  • Appendix 1. Catalogue by grave of all material examined and analysed for mineral-preserved organics (MPO)
  • Appendix 2. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of the metalwork
• Bibliography
• Back Cover