The demographic composition of cemeteries, burial rites and mortuary behaviour are considered alongside the political and landscape context of burial. This volume brings together a series of studies concerned with aspects of the archaeology of burial in early medieval England and Wales during the period AD 400-1100.

Preface and acknowledgements: List of contributors; Burial in early medieval England and Wales: past, present and future; Cemeteries and boundaries in western Britain; 'Remains of Pagan Saxondoms?; Burial practice in early medieval eastern England: constructing local identities, deconstructing ethnicity; Lies, damned lies, and the Curriculum Vitae: reflections on statistics and the populations of early Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemeteries; Multiple burials, multiple meanings? Interpreting the early Anglo-Saxon multiple interment; Cross-channel contacts between Anglo-Saxon England and Merovingian Francia; Reflections on the meaning of Anglo-Saxon barrows; Persistent problems in the study of Conversion-Period burials in England; The case of the missing Vikings: Scandinavian burial in the Danelaw; Burials, boundaries and charters in Anglo-Saxon England: a reassessment; Creating the sacred: Anglo-Saxon rites for consecrating cemeteries; Burial practices in northern England in the later Anglo-Saxon period; Constructing salvation: a homiletic and penitential context for late Anglo-Saxon burial practice; Conquest, crime and theology in the burial record: 1066-1200.