List of Figures

List of Plates

List of Tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Foreign language summaries

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Project background

Location, topography and geology

Archaeological and historical background

Methodology

Chapter 2: The Cemetery

Soil sequence

The cemetery features

Inhumation graves and burials

Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits

Other cemetery features

Grave catalogue

Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits

Unstratified metalwork – probable grave goods

Chapter 3: Human Skeletal Material

Unburnt human bone

Methods

Results

Concluding remarks

Cremated human bone and aspects of the cremation rite

Methods

Results and discussion

Concluding remarks

Chapter 4: Finds

Bed burial (grave 96)

Headboard stays

Double cleats

Eyelets or split spiked loops

Grave cover

Discussion

Metalwork

Weapons

Personal equipment

Vessels

Jewellery and dress accessories

Discussion

Mineral-preserved organics and compositional analysis of metalwork

Condition of the metalwork

Investigative conservation

Metallographic examination of knives

Introduction

Methods

Results

Discussion

Conclusion

Coins

Catalogue

Beads

Glass beads

Amber beads

Other beads

Distribution of beads

Discussion

Pottery

Cremation graves

Inhumation graves

Other features

Charcoal

Methods

Results

Chapter 5: Discussion of Burial Practices

Cemetery layout and organisation

Burial practice

Other aspects of burial practice

Grave construction and embellishment

Cemetery structures

Orientation

Multiple burial

Burial position

Social structure and community identity

Gender and age

Social hierarchy

Community and household identity

Collingbourne Ducis in the wider landscape

Appendices

Appendix 1. Catalogue by grave of all material examined and analysed for mineral-preserved organics (MPO)

Appendix 2. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of the metalwork

Bibliography