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'Remains of Pagan Saxondom'? The study of Anglo-Saxon cremation rites

chapter published in 2002

'The burnt Germans of the age of iron': early Anglo-Saxon mortuary practices and the study of cremation in past societies

doctoral thesis by Howard Williams

A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales. Volume I: South-East Wales and the English Border - By M. Redknap and J.M. Lewis; A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales. Volume II: South-Wes

scientific article published on 20 April 2011

A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes - Edited by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing

scientific article published on 10 October 2007

A Place to Rest Your (Burnt) Bones? Mortuary Houses in Early Anglo-Saxon England

article

A Viking Boat Grave with Amber Gaming Pieces Excavated at Skamby, Östergötland, Sweden

scientific article published in November 2008

Ancient Landscapes and the Dead: The Reuse of Prehistoric and Roman Monuments as Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites

article published in 1997

Anglo-Saxonism and Victorian archaeology: William Wylie's Fairford Graves

scientific article published on 8 January 2008

Antiquity at the National Memorial Arboretum

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Archaeologists on contemporary death

scientific article published in May 2011

Ashes to asses: an archaeological perspective on death and donkeys

scientific article published in September 2011

Assembling the dead

chapter published in 2004

Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead in Southern Britain, 3500 BC-AD 43. 3 vols. By P H W Bristow. 300mm. Pp vol 1, viii + 423; vol 2, 397, vol 3, 451. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1998. ISBN 0–8605495–9–3. £125.00

book review published in 2001

Beowulf and Lejre - By John D. Niles

Building for the Cremated Dead Ephemeral and Cumulative Constructions

chapter published in 2017

Cemeteries as Central Places - Place and Identity in Migration Period Eastern England

chapter published in 2002

Citations in Stone: The Material World of Hogbacks

scientific article published on 2 July 2016

Cremation and present pasts: A contemporary archaeology of Swedish memory groves

scholarly article by Howard Williams published May 2011 in Mortality

Death Warmed up

article by Howard Williams published November 2004 in Journal of Material Culture

Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain

book by Howard Williams

Death and Memory on the Home Front: Second World War Commemoration in the South Hams, Devon

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Death and landscape

Death, Memory and Time: A Consideration of the Mortuary Practices at Sutton Hoo

chapter published in 2001

Death, Memory, and Material Culture

article

Death, memory and material culture

article

Depicting the Dead: Commemoration Through Cists, Cairns and Symbols in Early Medieval Britain

Digging for the Dead: Archaeological Practice as Mortuary Commemoration

scholarly article by Howard Williams published in July 2007

Drawing the Line: What’s Wat’s Dyke? Practice and Process

scientific article

Editorial

Editorial

Editorial

Envisioning Wat's Dyke

chapter published in 2020

Ephemeral Monuments and Social Memory in Early Roman Britain

scientific article published in January 2004

Evaluating Community Archaeology in the UK

Excavation on Roundway Down

article published in 2001

Excavations at the Pillar of Eliseg, Llangollen. Preliminary Report Prepared for Cadw. Project Eliseg

report

Firing the Imagination: Cremation in the Museum

Forgetting the Britons in Victorian Anglo-Saxon Archaeology

scholarly article

Glass Beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves: A Study of the Povenance and Chronology of Glass Beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves, Based on Visual Examination by Birte Brugmann

scientific article published on 18 January 2007

Gotland's Picture Stones. Bearers of an Enigmatic Legacy. Edited by Maria HerlinKarnell. Gotland Museum. 2012. 215 pp. SEK 290. ISBN 9789188036865

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

Graves as mnemonic compositions

article

Heathen Graves and Victorian Anglo-Saxonism:

scientific article published in 2006

Hogbacks: the materiality of solid spaces

chapter published in 2015

Identities and Cemeteries in Roman and Early Medieval Britain

scientific article published in January 1999

Interpreting Wat's Dyke in the 21st Century

chapter published in 2020

Introduction: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society

chapter published in 2016

Introduction: Public Archaeologies of Death and Memory

Introduction: The Archaeology of Death, Memory and Material Culture

chapter published in 2003

Introduction: Themes in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Death and Burial

scientific article published on 10 October 2007

John Sheehan and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, eds. The Viking Age: Ireland and the West. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 2005 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010, 610 pp., 147 b/w illustr., 22 colour plates, hbk, ISBN:9781846821011)

article

Keeping the dead at arm’s length

scientific article published in June 2005

Land, Sea and Home: Proceedings of a Conference on Viking-Period Settlement at Cardiff, July 2001 - Edited by John Hines, Alan Lane and Mark Redknap

scientific article published on 27 March 2007

Landmarks of the Dead: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geographies

chapter published in 2015

Landscapes and memories

Material culture as memory: combs and cremation in early medieval Britain

article

Monument and material reuse at the National Memorial Arboretum

scientific article published on 16 May 2014

Monuments and memory

Monuments and the past in early Anglo‐Saxon England

scientific article published in June 1998

Mortuary Practices in Early Anglo‐Saxon England

article

Objects of memory

Objects without a Past? The use of Roman objects in early Anglo-Saxon graves

chapter publisher in 2003

Ole Crumlin-Pedersen, Archaeology and the Sea in Scandinavia and Britain: A Personal Account (Maritime Culture of the North 3, Roskilde: The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 2010, 184 pp., 167 colour illustr., hbk, ISBN 978-87-85180-05-6)

article

POTTED HISTORIES - CREMATION, CERAMICS AND SOCIAL MEMORY IN EARLY ROMAN BRITAIN

Philip Kiernan, Miniature Votive Offerings in the Roman North-West (MENTOR: Studien zu Metallarbeiten und Toreutik der Antike 4, Mainz und Ruhpolding: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2009, 299 pp., 143 b/w illustr., hbk, ISBN 978-3-941336-45-2, 978-3-44

Placing the Dead: Investigating the Location of Wealthy Barrow Burials in Seventh Century England

chapter published in 1999

Placing the Pillar of Eliseg: Movement, Visibility and Memory in the Early Medieval Landscape

article published in 2017

Preface

Public Archaeologies from the Edge

chapter published in 2020

Remembering Elites: Early Medieval Stone Crosses as Commemorative Technologies

chapter published in 2011

Remembering and Forgetting the Medieval Dead

chapter published in 2003

Remembering through the body

Remembering, forgetting and the mortuary context

Rethinking Wat’s Dyke: A Monument’s Flow in a Hydraulic Frontier Zone

scientific article

Rethinking early medieval mortuary archaeology

Roman and Early Medieval Wales

book review published in 2003

Saxon Obsequies: the Early Medieval Archaeology of Richard Cornwallis Neville

scientific article published on 4 April 2013

St Peter's Barton-Upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. A Parish and its Community. Volume 1: History, Archaeology and Architecture Parts 1 and 2. By WarwickRodwell

Studies in Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology: Papers in Honour of Martin G. Welch. Edited by StuartBrookes, SueHarrington and AndrewReynolds. British Archaeological Reports British Series 527. Oxford: Archaeopress. 2011. xi +179 pp. £38. ISBN 97

book review published in 2012

Sutton Hoo and its Landscape: The Context of Monuments - By Tom Williamson

scientific article published on 28 April 2010

Sutton Hoo: A Seventh-Century Princely Burial Ground and its Context - By Martin Carver

scientific article published on 31 March 2008

TOWARDS AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF CREMATION

The Ancient Monument in Romano-British Ritual Practices

article published in 1998

The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Blacknall Field, Pewsey, Wiltshire - By F.K. Annable and B.N. Eagles

scientific article published on 24 October 2011

The Biography of Borderlands: Old Oswestry Hillfort and Modern Heritage Debates

chapter published in 2020

The Landscape of a Swedish Boat-Grave Cemetery

scholarly article by Howard Williams et al published May 2010 in Landscapes

The Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and the Offa’s Dyke Journal

article published in 2019

The Pillar of Eliseg, Llantysilio. Incomplete inscribed cross and cairn SJ 2027 4452, NPRN 101160; 101161

article published in Archaeology in Wales in 2011

The Smiling Abbot: Rediscovering a Unique Medieval Effigial Slab

The emotive force of early medieval mortuary practices

article published in 2007

The sense of being seen: Ocular effects at Sutton Hoo

scientific article published in February 2011

Themed edition: Early medieval material culture in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century imagination

article

Towards an Archaeology of Cremation

chapter published in 2015

Transforming Body and Soul: Toilet Implements in Early Anglo-Saxon Graves

chapter published in 2007

Transforming Body and Soul: Toilet Implements in Early Anglo-Saxon Graves

article published on 10 October 2007

Tressed for Death in Early Anglo-Saxon England

scientific article published in 2016

Undead Divides: An Archaeology of Walls in The Walking Dead

chapter published in 2020

Viking Mortuary Citations

scientific article published on 2 July 2016

Virtually Dead: Digital Public Mortuary Archaeology

article published in 2015

Vlog to Death: Project Eliseg's Video-Blogging

‘Clumsy and illogical:’? Reconsidering the West Kirby hogback

article published in 2016

Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain

paperback edition (en)