Monday, October 3, 2011

Sonia Chadwick Hawkes with Guy Grainger et al., The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Worthy Park, Kingsworthy near Winchester, Hampshire.

Sonia Chadwick Hawkes with Guy Grainger et al., The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Worthy Park, Kingsworthy near Winchester, Hampshire. SONIA CHADWICK HAWKES with GUY GRAINGER et al., The Anglo-SaxonCemetery at Worthy Park, Kingsworthy near Winchester, Hampshire (OxfordUniversity School of Archaeology Monograph No. 59). xii+222 pages, 58figures, 52 tables. 2003. Oxford: Oxford University School ofArchaeology; 0-947816-60-7 hardback 22.50 [pounds sterling]. Worthy Park is a technical report on excavation in 1961-2 with adetailed inventory of 94 inhumations, 46 cremations and finds from theearlier part of die Saxon period. The stratigrapby was complicated. Theskeletal skeletal/skel��e��tal/ (skel��e-t'l) pertaining to the skeleton. skeletalpertaining to the skeleton. See also skeletal muscle. remains are reported (C. Wells & B. Denston with Mrs HAWKES& J. Bayley) and there are notes on features, on textiles (E.Crowfoot crowfoot,name for plants with the leaf or some other part resembling the foot of a crow, particularly the buttercup. ) and on materials analysis of small finds. The report isaccompanied by a gazetteer gazetteer(găz'ĭtēr`), dictionary or encyclopedia listing alphabetically the names of places, political divisions, and physical features of the earth and giving some information about each. of contemporary sites in the county. Later,part of a contemporary settlement was found, 550 m. away.

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