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Since the influential work of Roger White (1988; 1990), there have been a range of studies exploring the reuse and recycling of artefacts in southern and eastern Britain in the 5th–7th centuries AD, focusing especially on the reuse of Roman artefacts in early Anglo-Saxon furnished inhumation graves. This chapter will reappraise the theoretical and methodological framework for such studies, suggesting that the focus on ‘Roman’ artefacts distracts attention away from the potential mnemonic significance of deploying early medieval curated artefacts in the mortuary arena as key components of burial assemblages. We propose a new approach to early medieval artefacts, focusing on how older early medieval ‘heirlooms’ were deployed within the burial tableau as significant elements of mortuary performance. This argument is illustrated by four furnished inhumation graves, two each from a pair of cemeteries in east Kent.Citation
Costello, B., & Williams, H. (2019). Rethinking heirlooms in early medieval graves. In M. G. Knight, D. Boughton, & R. E. Wilkinson (Eds.), Objects of the Past in the Past: Investigating the Significance of Earlier Artefacts in Later Contexts (pp. 115–130). Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress.Publisher
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