tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post4121111203071932572..comments2023-11-29T07:39:34.401+00:00Comments on Carla Nayland Historical Fiction: ‘Anglo-Saxon’ cemetery discovered in YorkshireCarlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-77760708584154756592008-02-14T18:26:00.000+00:002008-02-14T18:26:00.000+00:00Hello David, and welcome. Indeed, more informatio...Hello David, and welcome. Indeed, more information would be very useful (always the case!). I understand there's going to be an interim report published in the spring of 2008, so it would be worth looking out for it on the <A HREF="http://www.teesarchaeology.com/partners/tas_intro.html" REL="nofollow">Teeside Archaeological Society page</A>.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-43894884833146604312008-02-14T14:07:00.000+00:002008-02-14T14:07:00.000+00:00Very significant find. Gold was a important posses...Very significant find. Gold was a important possession in England during the years mentioned. Graves for commoners were left to the families. Graves of the esteemed were ritualistic events shrouded in ancient religious customs, both pagan & Christine. Noteworthy is the term..."Artistic": Much of what remains today from this period are low grade hand crafted attempts at jewelry. Could the gold relic's be symbolic of religion? I'd have to see some close-ups. Safe to say however that people, were people, even in 670-80 BC. Could be just a 'whim' that the brooch's found their way to the grave. In need of more info.<BR/> David L. SouthwellUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13786960024157131330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-45502673675373187372007-11-26T20:15:00.000+00:002007-11-26T20:15:00.000+00:00Bernita - a fascinating site indeed.Bernita - a fascinating site indeed.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-55070271494045277102007-11-26T12:47:00.000+00:002007-11-26T12:47:00.000+00:00I agree. Am always suspicious of these absolute cl...I agree. Am always suspicious of these absolute claims about what is done and not done according to religious dictum.<BR/>Fascinating find!Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-86440182016368102992007-11-23T20:40:00.000+00:002007-11-23T20:40:00.000+00:00Gabriele - That's quite likely, and certainly seem...Gabriele - That's quite likely, and certainly seems to be the case for the Merovingian kings, who are roughly contemporary with the Loftus cemetery (assuming the mid seventh century date is confirmed). Evidently no priest told them they weren't allowed to have richly furnished burials. People may not necessarily have seen grave goods, or their absence, in terms of a religious statement, but more as a right and proper way of doing things, a way of showing proper respect for the dead person or of giving them a decent send-off. There's an example from late Roman Britain of a woman buried with ornaments and jars and an inscription that identifies her as Christian. Nowadays people will sometimes put personal objects in the coffin, without necessarily believing that the dead person is going to need them in any afterlife. It's quite possible to have ritual without any particular religious belief attached to it - just watch students in an exam carefully laying out their lucky rock on the desk, checking that they're wearing their lucky socks and writing with their lucky pencil, or for that matter technicians in a lab who hold that you mustn't look at the scintillation counter results until it's finished all the samples or the experiment won't have worked. People don't really go in for logic and consistency :-)<BR/><BR/>Alianore - yes, it just goes to show that you never know what might turn up, doesn't it?Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-6994133717167197192007-11-23T18:11:00.000+00:002007-11-23T18:11:00.000+00:00Fascinating! Delighted to hear that such an impor...Fascinating! Delighted to hear that such an important site has been discovered.Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19922276.post-51409362164545382242007-11-23T18:02:00.000+00:002007-11-23T18:02:00.000+00:00Maybe people practised a mix of Christian and paga...Maybe people practised a mix of Christian and pagan funeral rites - to be on the safe side, so to speak. Look at how blurred the lines between both were in Iceland where a praise poem for a bishop could be composed using the pagan <I>kenningar</I>. I have a feeling people back then were not so picky about religious purity. :)Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.com