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Barrows and Barrow-Burial – 400-700 AD
with Steve Pollingtonat Tranmer House, Sutton Hoo (map)
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| 10.00 | Coffee on arrival | ||
| 10.15 | Background to Barrow Burial The tradition of raising a mound over the grave of an important person is found widely in human societies, but the specifically European tradition stems from the cultures of western Asia, the so-called ‘kurgan peoples’. We will trace the idea through eastern and Central Europe to the Jastorf and Wielbark Cultures which emerge into history in the early centuries AD. We will also look at the British Bronze Age barrow tradition, which mirrors the Anglo-Saxon one in some respects. |
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| 11.15 | Coffee | ||
| 11.45 | Chambers of Secrets Anglo-Saxon barrows can be divided into four main groups: insertion graves, chamber burials, princely burials and ship-graves. We will look at the construction and artefact types found in each, as well as their distribution. |
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| 12.45 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 | Meduseld ~ Wælheall The role of the barrow-burial as a representation of war and peace will be explored, as well as the meaning of ship-burial and horse-burial. |
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| 15:00 | Tea break | ||
| 15:15 | The Otherworld What can barrow-burial and other forms of disposal of the dead tell us about Anglo-Saxon attitudes to the afterlife? |
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| 16:15 | Close |
Steve Pollington has been active in the field of Old English studies for over twenty years. Aside from authoring a dozen books on various aspects of early English culture and language, he has recorded CDs, worked as a script advisor for television, appeared on television and radio, and contributed to the prestigious Oxford Companion to Military History.
Evans, A.C., The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial (British Museum 1986)
Grinsell, L.V., The Ancient Burial-Mounds of England (London 1936)
Lucy, S., & A.Reynolds (eds), Burial in Early Mediaeval England and Wales, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 17 (London 2002)
Lucy, S., The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death (Sutton 2000)
Parker-Pearson, M., The Archaeology of Death and Burial (Stroud 1999)
Pollington, S., Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds (Anglo-Saxon Books 2008)
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Wuffing Education,
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