ABSTRACT
This volume presents the results of a highly detailed and technically advanced analysis of a discrete period in the archaeology of Britain, when artefacts were included in human graves in a regular manner. This cultural practice is represented primarily within a large area of southern and eastern England, and has long been known to represent the earliest centuries of the Anglo-Saxon Period, following the demise of Roman imperial rule over the provinces of Britannia: an event that was effectively as thorough a break in terms of material life as it was politically (see, most recently, Esmonde Cleary 2011 and refs).
