| Title: |
Stanway: an Elite Burial Site at Camulodunum |
| Series: |
Britannia Monograph series
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| Volume: |
24
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| Number of Pages: |
516 |
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| Licence Type: |
ADS Terms of Use and Access
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| DOI |
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| Publication Type: |
Monograph (in Series)
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| Abstract: |
Excavations between 1987 and 2003 on the fringes of the site of Camulodunum at Colchester revealed an extraordinary funerary site with a Middle Iron Age antecedent. The earliest of the five enclosures that defined the site was an Iron Age farmstead, abandoned by the mid-first century BC. Important finds from this period include an assemblage of Middle Iron Age pottery and two currency bars. The other four enclosures were the burial place of members of an élite Catuvellaunian family, including a ‘Warrior’ and a ‘Doctor’. A wide range of grave goods was recovered, both imported and of native manufacture. They include a set of surgical asnstruments, ceramic table services, wine amphorae, fine glassware and metal vessels, dress accessories, textiles, weaponry and several gaming boards, one with the pieces in position as if in play. A metal strainer bowl in the Doctor's burial had last been used to make a tea containing artemisia. The burial rite had included feasting and the breaking of the vessels used for the meals. The characteristics of the enclosures and the funerary rites are linked with the Folly Lane and King Harry Lane sites in Verulamium, and with sites in northern Gaul |
| Author: |
Nina Crummy
Donald Shimmin
Philip Crummy
Valery Rigby
Stephen F Benfield
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| Publisher: |
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
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| Other Person/Org: |
Patricia E J Wiltshire (Author contributing)
Peter L Murphy (Author contributing)
Simon Mays (Author contributing)
Anthony J Legge (Author contributing)
Nigel Brown (Author contributing)
S La Niece (Author contributing)
Alec Wade (Author contributing)
Richard Hingley (Author contributing)
Hazel Martingell (Author contributing)
Ralph Jackson (Author contributing)
Paul R Sealey (Author contributing)
Sarah Paynter (Author contributing)
Val Fryer (Author contributing)
H E M Cool (Author contributing)
Geoffrey B Dannell (Author contributing)
John A Davies (Author contributing)
John Peter Wild (Author contributing)
B H C Dickinson (Author contributing)
N Meeks (Author contributing)
Anne-Maria Bojko (Author contributing)
Keith Oak (Author contributing)
Ulrich Schadler (Author contributing)
Caroline R Cartwright (Author contributing)
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| Year of Publication: |
2007
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| ISBN: |
9780907764359 |
| Locations: |
| Place: |
Colchester |
| County: |
Essex |
| Site: |
Stanway |
| Country: |
England |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
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ROMAN
(ENG)
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IRON AGE
(ENG)
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BURIAL
(Monument Type England)
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| Source: |
ADS Archive
(ADS Archive)
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| Created Date: |
24 Oct 2018 |
