approaches to history: archaeology burials: identity and status
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Approaches to History: Archaeology
Burials: Identity and Status
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What can burials tell us about status and power in early medieval Europe?
• What determined social status? Gender, age-grades, descent, etc. – not profession or ‘class’
• Early medieval social structure: written sources
• The importance of gift-giving and portable wealth in a non-monetised society
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Earliest Frankish laws: the Lex Salica
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Conspicuous consumption of surplus through gift-giving:
The Staffordshire Hoard: c 7th century
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Conspicuous consumption of surplus: the Kingston brooch
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Case Study I: The burial of Childeric I(Merovingian ‘king’, d. 481-2)
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Stilicho, leader of the western Roman army: nb crossbow brooch
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Childeric’s signet ring: ‘Childerici regis’, a ‘long-haired king’
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Childeric: Romanitas
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5th-century horse sacrifices near Childeric’s grave
(St Brice, Tournai)
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Early Anglo-Saxon ‘kingdoms’
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Case Study II: Sutton Hoo, SE Suffolk (R. Deben)
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Plan of the Sutton Hoo cemetery: 16 burial mounds (barrows)
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The Sutton Hoo ship burial (Mound 1) under excavation, 1939
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3 symbolic categories of finds hold the key to ‘reading’ the status of ‘Mound 1
Man’ (Maybe Redwald d. 624-5?):
• Feasting and drinking equipment: symbolic of the provision of hospitality/gifts
• Roman/Byzantine objects & imitations: symbolic of ‘Romanitas’
• Objects symbolizing international connections
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Byzantine silver bowls: for washing?
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Preparing the feast: the cauldron
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The drinking horns
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Sutton Hoo: the drinking set
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The drinking set: The burr wood cups
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Sutton Hoo: the ‘tub’
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Sutton Hoo: reconstruction of the lyre
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Gifts of gold: the great gold buckle
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‘Romanitas’: The ‘Coptic’ bowl from the Eastern mediterranean
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The ‘Anastasius’ dish
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The Sutton Hoo Helmet
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Late Roman helmets
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Mound 1 Man
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8th-century genealogy of the East Anglian kings
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International connections: the purse-lid, coins and blanks
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The Sutton Hoo ship: links to the Svea region of Sweden (a link to the Wylfings?)
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The Sutton Hoo ship: half-size replica
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Case Study III: Late Saxon execution burials
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Late Saxon Execution Burials placed near prehistoric/pagan Saxon burial
mounds
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Execution burials near boundaries
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