ABSTRACT
This project employs three principal techniques to explore the chronology of Anglo-Saxon graves and the artefact assemblages which they contain; typology, correspondence analysis, and highprecision radiocarbon dating. These methods are employed in an iterative and reflexive cycle, and the results combined in a series of Bayesian statistical models. All these approaches have been available to archaeologists now for at least 20 years, although applications of both high-precision radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling are still comparatively rare in the Anglo-Saxon period (but see Bayliss & Hey 2004; Bayliss et al 2009; Hamilton et al 2009; Marshall et al 2009b). What is novel here, however, is the combination of the four techniques. All research stands or falls on the soundness of its methodological foundation, but in this application it is particularly critical to clearly describe the methods used as they may either be unfamiliar or used in unfamiliar ways.
