Research fellow @GirtonCollege @UCamArchaeology Early Medieval Europe | Death & Burial | GIS | Occasional Vikings She/her
Cambridge, England
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New paper alert!
"A radiocarbon-based model of changing burial rites in early medieval England" @14Cjournal
Using big data to answer the question of what happens to grave goods in the 7th century, and more.
Summary🧵
doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.110
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The Humanities Writing Competition invites UK students in Year 12 to explore beyond the curriculum, inspired by the Lawrence Room museum objects.
🕰️ The competition is open now and closes on Thursday 20 March 2025.
⬇️ Find out more ↘️
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New publication just in time for Christmas, in Current Swedish Archaeology! Osteological analysis and c14 dating of human remains from the first churchyard burials on Gotland.
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ALT A black and white photograph of a collection of artefacts. They include three triangular brooches, a bracelet, a ring, a hairpin, and a string of beads.
Finally, even though these people had been separated from the objects they were buried with, copper staining gives some indication. Combined with the c14 dates, we can see that people were being buried with objects into the 12th and 13th centuries, later than expected
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ALT A hand wearing a blue nitryl glove holding a long bone, with green copper staining on the end
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NEW Did ancient Britons scatter their ashes in rivers? Lack of burial evidence from the Iron Age until the 5th century AD suggests alternative funerary customs persisted throughout Roman occupation.
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📷 Meghan Mattsson McGinnis
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ALT Illustration of a person stood in a body of water, scattering ashes into the water.
Out now in @AntiquityJ! Looking at evidence that not everyone in early med England was buried in a cemetery, and that alternative Iron Age forms of disposal in the landscape persisted into the Roman period and beyond...
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🗓️Come and visit the Lawrence Room on Saturday 14 September from 2:00pm - 4:00pm!
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🎟️Booking not required: Free to attend!
Have you ever been to visit the Lawrence Room @GirtonCollege?
A hidden gem of #Cambridge, the Lawrence Room is home to Roman and Anglo-Saxon grave goods discovered on the college site as well as artefacts from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece: bit.ly/3WPyA2l
ALT A shot of the interior of the Lawrence Room at Girton College.
Great to show the exchange group from Thetford and Nagawa around the Lawrence Room museum last month!
THC Youth Group and Young Obsidian Ambassadors Cultural Exchange 2024
Day 5: Lawrence Room at @GirtonCollege
Thank you to Dr Emma Brownlee for the tour.
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In Rome for #EAA2024. On Friday will be chairing and speaking in session 182 on non-burial treatment of the dead. Including a sneak preview of my and Ali Klevnäs’s forthcoming @AntiquityJ paper!
ALT The colosseum glowing in the setting sun
Nice summary of old and new work on Repton's Viking army camp led by @CatJarman. Featuring @HorneSupremacy on the wider context and me on the burials
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Fascinating finds @GirtonCollege after research fellow @ECBrownlee led a re-excavation of the Roman and Anglo-Saxon burial sites uncovered by @theUL Librarian Francis Jenkinson in 1881, who wasn't too careful about what he did... girton.cam.ac.uk/news/archae…
New excavations on the site of Girton's Roman and early medieval cemetery!
We've pinned down the exact location of the site, and by re-excavating the backfill we've recovered a number of the human remains which weren't valued by antiquarians
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🔍 What lies beneath the grounds at Girton College, @Cambridge_Uni?
Girton Fellow @ECBrownlee led a group of students and fellows to investigate Francis Jenkinson's 19th-century #excavation, hoping to piece together some of the missing details.
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I couldn't have done this without the most wonderful team of colleagues, and @GirtonCollege students and fellows. Most were new to archaeology, but you couldn't tell!
Nice summary of my #radiocarbon study! @14Cjournal
Study reveals when burial practices changed in early medieval England - great research by @ECBrownlee medievalists.net/2024/04/bur… #medieval #history
