Title: |
Secrets of the grave: the excavation of a Roman church and two cemeteries in Colchester |
Number of Pages: |
16 |
Biblio Note |
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Publication Type: |
Monograph
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Abstract: |
Popular booklet with plans and photographs of the Butt Road cemetery, where finds included a decorated lead coffin, hobnails from boots, hairpins and a necklace (reconstructed), and a couple of wooden jewellery caskets of which the metal fittings survived. Glass and pottery vessels and styli were also found, together with one of the diseased skeletons. The associated church was in use between AD 320/40 to at least 400; its plan is preserved on the site. The Christian nature of church and cemetery is deduced from the E-W orientation of the later burials and a reduction in grave goods. |
Author: |
Philip Crummy
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Year of Publication: |
No Date
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ISBN: |
0 9503727 8 1 |
Locations: |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Butt Road |
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Subjects / Periods: |
ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
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Source: |
BIAB
(British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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Created Date: |
05 Dec 2008 |