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... cremation cemeteries were ' centralised depositories , not belonging to individual settlements ' : and that there ... cremation where the body needed to be taken to a centralised depository . ' If cremation took place near the settle ...
... cremation cemeteries were ' centralised depositories , not belonging to individual settlements ' : and that there ... cremation where the body needed to be taken to a centralised depository . ' If cremation took place near the settle ...
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... cremation urns are decorated with patterns made up of lines of small stamped designs , pressed into the wet clay from bone dyes . The same stamps often appear on more than one pot , and this , until recently , was thought to indicate ...
... cremation urns are decorated with patterns made up of lines of small stamped designs , pressed into the wet clay from bone dyes . The same stamps often appear on more than one pot , and this , until recently , was thought to indicate ...
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... cremation , as the dominant rite . We would , therefore , see something akin to the observed pattern : the proliferation of small inhumation cemeteries between larger cremation or mixed cremation / inhumation ones . But there is another ...
... cremation , as the dominant rite . We would , therefore , see something akin to the observed pattern : the proliferation of small inhumation cemeteries between larger cremation or mixed cremation / inhumation ones . But there is another ...
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Topography and environment | 1 |
The earliest boundaries in this area form a series | 26 |
Before the Angles | 41 |
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acres adjacent Anglo-Saxon arable areas Bede Blomefield 1805 boundaries Breckland Buckenham Burgh Castle burial Burnham carucates central watershed claylands coins common-edge complex Conquest Costessey county's Danish distribution Domesday Early Saxon Earsham East Angles East Anglian Archaeology East Dereham England estate centres evidence example excavations farms Fens Forehoe grazing groups hām hundred Iceni Icenorum interfluves Iron Age kilometres king kingdom land landscape large numbers Late Saxon later Launditch located London major manor manorial Marshland Mercian Middle Ages Middle Saxon Midlands minster Norfolk North Elmham North Walsham Norwich occupied open fields organisation pagan parish churches pattern perhaps place-names places population pottery probably Raedwald Reepham river Rogerson Roman road Romano-British royal Saham Saxon Shore fort Scandinavian seventh century Shropham social soils sokemen South Creake south-east Spong Hill Suffolk suggest survived tenurial territories Thetford town tribal tūn valleys Venta Icenorum Viking villages vills Wade-Martins Walsham woodland Wuffingas Wymondham