The St. John’s Hospital Cemetery and Environs, Cambridge
Contextualizing the Medieval Urban Dead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11615111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Cessford (0000-0001-7291-7828, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 172 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-120 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00665983.2014.984960 |
| OpenAlex | W2076028710 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 37 |
The excavation of four hundred complete and partial in situ burials from the Hospital of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, represented one of the largest medieval hospital osteoarchaeological assemblages from the British Isles. The significance of the group is enhanced by the detailed investigation of a carefully maintained network of pathways associated with the cemetery, the archaeological sequence that pre- and post-dated its use and a number of contemporary properties that were situated immediately outside its bounds. This evidence allows the cemetery to be placed within its urban context in a way that is rarely possible. The overwhelming majority of the burials were extended west-east aligned supine inhumations without grave-goods. Atypical burials included examples aligned east-west and south-north, a double burial, a prone burial and individuals buried with a jet crucifix and a brooch. Other significant finds included a nearby pit with four bodies in it, an anthropomorphic bone handle and a reused cruciform horse harness pendant. The proportion of males and females in the burial population is similar, whilst individuals who died under the age of sixteen are relatively uncommon and individuals aged under five are completely absent
Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Dismemberment · Excavation · Geography · Grave goods · Population · Viking Age · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Paleopathology and ancient diseases
Sacred Heritage
Osteobiography
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations
Caring for the injured
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England
Fancy shoes and painful feet
Pathways to the medieval hospital
A Biocultural Approach to Understanding the Presence of Children from Medieval Hospitals in England
From field to suburb
Destruction Layers, Urban Evolution, and Earthquakes in Roman Patras, Greece
The people of the Cambridge Austin friars
Death in the sun
Buried with their Buckles On
Intrapopulation variation in lower limb trabecular architecture
Medieval injuries
Trabecular bone functional adaptation and sexual dimorphism in the human foot
Evaluating macroscopic sex estimation methods using genetically sexed archaeological material
Complex variation of trabecular bone structure in the proximal humerus and femur of five modern human populations
Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns
Human-like hip joint loading in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus
Trabecular bone structure scales allometrically in the foot of four human groups
Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn
The Archaeology of Reformation 1480–1580
Personal identification in mass disasters
Dental Anthropology
The Human Remains
Proposing a way forward
BCal
Skeletal age determination based on the os pubis
The value of sieving of grave soil in the recovery of human remains
The potential significance of dietary offsets for the interpretation of radiocarbon dates
The Dolphin Inn Hoard
Stonemasons' Drawings on Building Fabric
Middle Anglo-Saxon Justice
Jet Cross Pendants from the British Isles and Beyond
Magic for the Dead? The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval Burials
An Ivory Knife Handle from the High Street, Perth, Scotland
The Jews in Medieval Britain
Validating and Improving Archaeological Phasing at St. Mary Spital, London
The Fifteenth-Century Garner at Leadenhall, London
Chronological metamorphosis of the auricular surface of the ilium
The causes of porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia
The Osteological Paradox
Archaeological excavations at Mungo
Understanding Entheseal Changes
A cathedral cemetery
Raunds, Northamptonshire
Dark Age Economics' revisited
Emotion in Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |