You can’t take it with you: artefacts in burials from post-Roman to
modern
UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
Monday 29 April 2013
10.15-10.55: Registration and coffee
10.55: Welcome
11.00-11.30: Close at hand: swords in the Anglo-Saxon burial “tableau”
Sue Brunning, Curator, Insular Early Medieval Collections, British Museum
11.30-12.00: A fitting send-off? Aspects of finds in Saxon burials, based on excavations
at Prittlewell, Essex, and in Covent Garden, London
Lyn Blackmore, MOLA
12.00-12.30: Unpacking individuality, grave goods and group identities: insights from
Oakington and other early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
Dr Duncan Sayer, Lecturer in Archaeology, School of Forensic and Investigative
Science, University of Central Lancashire
12.30-12.50: ‘Verily I place upon the breast of a priest a chalice’: funerary chalices and
patens from York Minster.
Nicky Rogers York Archaeological Trust
12.50-2.30: Lunch
2.30-2.45: Furness abbey (to be confirmed)
Stephen Rowland, Project Manager, Oxford Archaeology North
2.45-3.15: Post-medieval burials in Britain
Prof Sarah Tarlow, Professor of Historical Archaeology, School of Archaeology and
Ancient History, University of Leicester
3.15-4.00: Tea
4.00-4.30: Getting to grips with post-medieval burials: coffin fittings and other finds
from nonconformist cemeteries
Dr Marit Gaimster, Pre-Construct Archaeology
4.30-5.00: 4.30-5.00: Some surprising finds from recent post-medieval cemetery
excavations in London
Beth Richardson, MOLA
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