The Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries of East Yorkshire

A study of mortuary practices in East Yorkshire from the fifth to the late seventh century BC. The author uses all the available evidence, from well-recorded modern excavations to briefly recorded nineteenth century finds. He believes that exploring the variation in burial rites can tell us more about this society than 'trying to reduce the rite to a single homogeneous entity ...until the advent of Christianity brings a new rite'. The book includes a useful chapter on 'The Anglo-Saxon Myth and the Development of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology'.