Description: Spong Hill, with over 2500 cremations, remains the largest early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery to have been excavated in Britain. This volume presents the long-awaited chronology and synthesis of the site. It gives a detailed overview of the artefactual evidence, which includes over 1200 objects of bone, antler and ivory.
Brief description: Sam Lucy is in charge of post-excavation and publication at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. Her research interests are mainly in Anglo-Saxon material culture and funerary archaeology.
Review Quotes: In drawing this innovative volume to a close, the authors fall back upon an all too familiar narrative to explain the history and use of the cemetery of Spong Hill. Although they give lip service to ethnicity as one of many mutable identities possessed by the individuals buried at this large cemetery, they downplay some of their prefatory observations that Spong Hill retained important aspects of burial practices current in Britain at the end of the fourth century.