A Seventh-Century ad Cemetery at Stoneage Barton Farm, Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset and Square-Ditched Burials in Post-Roman Britain

Part of a cemetery of uncertain extent was excavated following its discovery during work upon a late prehistoric and Roman rural settlement. At least four of the inhumations appeared to lie within square-ditched enclosures with entrances on the east. Bone survival was very poor but one skeleton, from a double burial, was dated to the mid-seventh century and was probably female. The practice of square-ditched burial is discussed and it is suggested that the burials are a widespread but uncommon form of secular elite burial in areas outside Saxon control

Ancient history · Archaeology · Elite · Politics · Prehistory · Settlement (finance · Square (algebra · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History

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