Author: Leslie V. GrinsellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Ancient Burial-mounds of England
Author: Leslie V. GrinsellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Ancient Burial-mounds of England
Author: L.V. GrinsellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317604687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
First published in 1936 and rewritten in 1953, this book embodies the results of the author’s extensive researches and fieldwork. Part one considers types of barrows and dating, their building and the cult of the dead from Palaeolithic to Saxon times. A chapter is dedicated to maps and another to fieldwork in particular, while the final bit of the introductory material discussed barrow-digging from the time of the Romans to the twentieth century. Part two is the regional surveys, from Cornwall to Kent and northwards to the Scottish border.
The Ancient Burial-mounds of England
Author: L.V. GrinsellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317604695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
First published in 1936 and rewritten in 1953, this book embodies the results of the author’s extensive researches and fieldwork. Part one considers types of barrows and dating, their building and the cult of the dead from Palaeolithic to Saxon times. A chapter is dedicated to maps and another to fieldwork in particular, while the final bit of the introductory material discussed barrow-digging from the time of the Romans to the twentieth century. Part two is the regional surveys, from Cornwall to Kent and northwards to the Scottish border.
Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds
Author: Stephen PollingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Stephen Pollington is well known for his many works popularising scholarship and archaeology on Anglo-Saxon England. Here he turns his attention to probably the most famous aspect of early Anglo-Saxon culture, the spectular burial mounds, of which Sutton Hoo is the best known example. Here Pollington presents a detailed gazetteer of all known barrow burials across England including the latest findings such as the chamber burial at Prittlewell. Information regarding excavation, contents, dating and skeletal remains is accompanied by photographs and plans of the finest sites. The opening half of the book uses this information to outline the evolution of the barrow burial, its Germanic context, the symbolism of the burials and the contents of the tombs, and their physical construction. Old English and Norse literary references to the mounds are contained in appendices.
The ancient burial-mounds of England
Author: Leslie Valentine GrinsellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Sutton Hoo
Author: M. O. H. CarverPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812234558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Examines what the Sutton Hoo ship-burial site reveals about early England, describes the site's treasures and mysteries, and recounts the events surrounding its discovery.
Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire
Author: John Robert MortimerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthworks (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: William A. ChaneyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719003721
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Beyond the Grave
Author: Jonathan LastPublisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This collection of fourteen papers presents the latest research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows of Britain.
British Barrows
Author: Ann WoodwardPublisher: Tempus Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780752425313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Prehistoric barrows were not only monuments to the dead but mounds for the living—making out land, defining pathways, acting as powerful symbols, and forming a major part of perceived landscapes which welded nature and human history together. Concentrating on the long and round barrows of Neolithic and Bronze Age date, but also covering Iron Age square barrows, Ann Woodward employs accounts of many excavations and field projects, as well as her own research, to provide one person's view of how barrows fit into British prehistory.