WASPERTON by Martin Carver, Catherine Hills, Jonathan Scheschkewitz ( 9781843834274 )

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WASPERTON
A ROMAN, BRITISH AND ANGLO-SAXON COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL ENGLAND

By:

Martin Carver, Catherine Hills, Jonathan Scheschkewitz

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BOYDELL & BREWER LTD

Pub. date:

1 February, 2009

Series:

Anglo-Saxon Studies v. 11

Pages:

384

Description:

The newest research on a major Anglo-Saxon site paints a vivid picture of the beginnings of England.

Synopsis:

(Edited by Martin Carver) For decades scholars have puzzled over the true story of settlement in Britain between the fifth and eight centuries. Did the Romans leave? Did the Anglo-Saxons invade? What happened to the British? New light on these questions comes unexpectedly from Wasperton, a small village on the Warwickshire Avon, where archaeologists had the good fortune to excavate a complete cemetery and its prehistoric setting. The community reused an old Romano-British agricultural enclosure, and built burial mounds beside it. There was a score of cremations in Anglo-Saxon pots; but there were also unfurnished graves lined with stones and planks in the manner of western Britain. In a pioneering analysis, including radiocarbon and stable isotopes, the authors of this book have put this variety of burial practice into a credible sequence, and built up a picture of life at the time. Here there were people who were culturally Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon, pagan and Christian in continuous use of the same graveyard and drawing on a common inheritance. Here we can see the beginnings of England and the people who made it happen - not the kings, warriors and preachers, but the ordinary folk obliged to make their own choices: choices about what nation to build and which religion to follow. MARTIN CARVER is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of York; Dr CATHERINE HILLS is Senior Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology at the University of Cambridge; Dr JONATHAN SCHESCHKEWITZ is Officer with the Ancient Monuments authority of Stuttgart.

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100 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, color; 20

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