Capel Maelog, Llandrindod Wells, Powys: Excavations 1984–87

Britnell, William; Jones, Nard; Courtney, Paul; Spurgeon, C. J.; Webster, Peter

doi:10.1080/00766097.1990.11735528

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“…2), evidence for domestic and agricultural activity in the form of ditches and possible roundhouse gullies was present, and was radiocarbon dated to the fourth/fifth and the sixth to ninth centuries (Britnell et al . 1990, 33, 82). Coffin wood from one of the earliest graves returned a date of AD 770–1040 (Fig.…”

Section: Integrated Burial and Settlement In Early Medieval Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Evidence for metalworking was also present across the northern and eastern areas of excavation at Capel Maelog (Britnell et al . 1990, 41). This comprised furnace lining, smithing slag, fuel ash slag, ironworking slags and a crucible fragment.…”

Section: Integrated Burial and Settlement In Early Medieval Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, while at Arfryn (Gwynedd), a fifth/sixth‐century inhumation cemetery was established within an extant circular enclosure around a former Bronze Age settlement, circular embankments created to enclose burials at Brownslade Barrow (Pembrokeshire) and Capel Maelog (Powys) date from no earlier than the late seventh century (Britnell et al . 1990; Groom et al . 2011; Hedges et al .…”

Section: Burial In Early Medieval Wales: the Traditional Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Capel Maelog (Powys) and Whitesands Bay (Pembrokeshire) (Britnell et al . 1990; Murphy et al . 2016) unexcavated sites with anecdotal evidence for early medieval burial but no current evidence for earlier or later activity, e.g.…”

Section: Burial In Early Medieval Wales: the Traditional Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, the absence of skeletal material in the phase‐one graves, below them, was used to suggest that the area of the earliest graves was exposed to the elements for a considerable period of time before the construction of the building (Britnell et al . 1990, 38–9). The onset of burial at Capel Maelog must therefore be either contemporary with, or slightly post‐date, non‐funerary activity at the site.…”

Section: Integrated Burial and Settlement In Early Medieval Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Burial in Early Medieval Wales: Identifying Multifunctional Cemeteries

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Burial grounds and secular settlements in early medieval Wales (fifth to eleventh centuries AD) are understood to have been in geographically separate locations. In contrast, it is known that in England and on the Continent during this period burial began to be integrated within settlements. Changes in burial practice also occurred in Ireland, where early medieval 'cemetery settlements' with integrated burial and non-funerary activity are a relatively recent discovery. This paper presents a reassessment of the archaeological evidence from five published early medieval Welsh cemeteries and one recently-excavated example. It will demonstrate that these Welsh cemeteries share a number of attributes with Irish cemetery settlements and will critically evaluate the significance of this for our understanding of early medieval Wales. The paper will conclude that such sites are better conceptualized as 'multifunctional cemeteries', rather than 'cemetery settlements'. INTRODUCTIONAcross northwest Europe, social changes during the early medieval period profoundly altered the spatial relationship between the living and the dead. During the preceding Roman period, burials were situated outside the boundaries of settlements (

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Slate Discs at Tintagel Castle: Evidence for Post-Roman Mead Production?

Moffett¹

2017

Antiq. J.

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The excavated evidence of the building on the middle terrace of Site C at Tintagel Castle, in Cornwall, indicates that in the post-Roman period it had been the focus of activity involving the reuse of imported amphorae in conjunction with secondary stone stoppers made at Tintagel. This paper considers the nature of that activity and suggests that mead (fermented honey water) was being made in the building in the fifth and sixth centuries ad and stored in reused amphorae. The role of alcohol and feasting in power structures of the period and in the development of the site’s defences is also discussed.

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