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Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne This volume reports on the excavation of a series of six Iron Age cemeteries in Champagne, France: Ménil-Annelles, Ville-sur-Retourne, Juniville, Alincourt, Saulces-Champenoises and Quilly. All the Champagne cemeteries were located by their distinctive ditched enclosures which served as the foc

Stead, I. M.

This volume reports on the excavation of a series of six Iron Age cemeteries in Champagne, France: Ménil-Annelles, Ville-sur-Retourne, Juniville, Alincourt, Saulces-Champenoises and Quilly. All the Champagne cemeteries were located via their distinctive ditched enclosures which served as the focus of each burial group. The excavations were conducted by an Anglo-French team of archaeologists between 1971 and 1982. In this report they describe the spatial arrangement of each cemetery and its burials, and consider the relative chronology of the series, from Hallstatt and La Tène to the Gallo-Roman period. They compare the cemeteries with other known burial sites from the region, and discuss the local evidence for changing funerary rituals. Specialist chapters deal with the Celtic coins, pottery and petrographic analyses, glass vessels, metalwork (including weapons and jewellery), Roman artefacts, human and animal bones, and the Iron Age and Roman landscape. All pots from each burial are further described and illustrated in a complete inventory at the end of the volume. (Oxbow Books 2006)

Review Quote

"This volume is an excellent tool of research that deals with almost every aspect of funerary archaeology."

Greta Anthoons
Ollodagos (2008)

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Cemeteries
The Grave-goods
Human and animal bones (Sheelagh Stead)
The Iron Age and Roman Empire landscape (P. C. Buckland, J. R. A. Greig, C. Frederick, P. Wagner and C. J. Beal)
List of cemeteries mentioned in the text
Inventories and tables of grave-goods

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