Publications OA Monograph Series The Late Roman Cemetery at Lankhills | The Late Roman Cemetery at Lankhills |
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Excavations 2000-2005 Oxford Archaeology monograph 10 by Paul Booth, Andrew Simmonds, Angela Boyle, Sharon Clough, H E M Cool and Daniel Poore ISBN 978-0-904220-62-9 £25.00  Most burials were laid our roughly west-east, the majority in wooden
coffins. Grave goods, including nailed shoes, pottery and coins, were
more common than usual in late Romano-British urban cemeteries. A number
of age/gender associations were apparent; jewellery was often
associated with adolescents and young women and spindle whorls with
older women, for example. Six crossbow brooches (to add to eight from
earlier work), buried with males, were almost invariably associated with
belt equipment and indicate an official/military element within the
cemetery population. The most spectacular individual burial contained a
gilded and inscribed crossbow brooch, silver gilt belt fitting and
decorated spurs, a unique assemblage in Roman Britain. Isotope analysis
shows that some of the cemetery population were immigrants probably
deriving from a variety of locations in Europe and perhaps even, in at
least one case, North Africa. |