saxon obsequies: the early medieval archaeology of richard cornwallis neville
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Abstract
This paper investigates the origins of British Anglo-Saxon
archaeology by focusing on the work of one early Victorian archaeologist: Richard
Cornwallis Neville. The seemingly descriptive and parochial nature of Neville’s
archaeological pursuits, together with the attention he afforded to Romano-British
remains, has impeded due recognition, and critical scrutiny, of his contributions to the
development of early Medieval burial archaeology. Using his archaeological publications
as source material, I will show how Neville’s interpretations of Saxon graves were a
form of memory work, defining his personal, familial and martial identity in relation to
the landscape and locality of his aristocratic home at Audley End, near Saffron Walden,
Essex. Subsequently, I argue that Neville’s prehistoric and Romano-British discoveries
reveal his repeated concern with the end of Roman Britain and its barbarian successors.
Finally, embodied within Neville’s descriptions of early Medieval graves and their
location we can identify a pervasive Anglo-Saxonism. Together these strands of argument
combine to reveal how, for Neville, Saxon graves constituted a hitherto unwritten first
chapter of English history that could be elucidated through material culture and
landscape.
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| Authors | ;Howard Williams |
| Journal | journal of porous media |
| Year | 2013 |
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10.5334/bha.2312
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