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Mays, S. (1993).
The human bone from Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire (1988'“92 excavations)
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The human bone from Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire (1988'“92 excavations)
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Research Department Reports Series
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3939/93
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Simon Mays
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1993
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BIAB (The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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http://research.english-heritage.org.uk/report/?4484
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20 Jan 2002
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The human bone from Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire (1988'“92 excavations)
Forty-seven cremations and four inhumations from a small ditched cemetery of second century date are reported. Different degrees of firing, between bone fragments and between the internal and external surfaces of individual pieces, may have resulted from fragments of the corpse falling to hotter or cooler areas of the pyre. Even cremations which had not suffered loss of bone due to plough damage showed only about one third of the weight of bone expected from a complete skeleton. This seemed likely to be the result of incomplete retrieval of bone from the pyre in antiquity rather than destruction of bone in the soil. It seemed unlikely that the urns were completely filled with bone in antiquity and there was no correlation between the volume of the urn and the weight of the bone inside. A small number of cremations and inhumations unassociated with the Romano-British cemetery are also reported.