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Theatres of Closure: Process and Performance in Inhumation Burial Rites in Early Medieval Britain (2020)
Journal Article
Harrington, S., Brookes, S., Semple, S., & Millard, A. (2020). Theatres of Closure: Process and Performance in Inhumation Burial Rites in Early Medieval Britain. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30(3), 389-412. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774320000050

Inhumation burials are recorded in Britain and Europe during excavations in a standardized way, especially graves of early medieval date. Just a limited number of attributes are usually foregrounded and these mainly concern skeletal identification, t... Read More about Theatres of Closure: Process and Performance in Inhumation Burial Rites in Early Medieval Britain.

Power at the Edge: Yeavering, Northumberland, England (2017)
Book Chapter
Semple, S., Buchanan, B., Harrington, S., Oliver, D., & Petts, D. (2017). Power at the Edge: Yeavering, Northumberland, England. In S. Semple, C. Orsini, & S. Mui (Eds.), Life on the Edge: Social, Political and Religious Frontiers in Early Medieval Europe (91-112). Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum

At the Limits: Frontiers and Boundaries in Early Medieval Northern Europe (2017)
Book Chapter
Semple, S., Orsini, C., & Mui, S. (2017). At the Limits: Frontiers and Boundaries in Early Medieval Northern Europe. In S. Semple, C. Orsini, & S. Mui (Eds.), Life on the Edge: Social, Political and Religious Frontiers in Early Medieval Europe (7-25). Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum

Landmarks of the Dead: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geographies (2015)
Book Chapter
Semple, S., & Williams, H. (2015). Landmarks of the Dead: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geographies. In M. Clegg Hyer, & G. Owen-Crocker (Eds.), The material culture of the built environment in the Anglo-Saxon world (137-161). Liverpool University Press

The Pre-Christian Landscape in Anglo-Saxon England (2015)
Book Chapter
Semple, S. (2015). The Pre-Christian Landscape in Anglo-Saxon England. In C. Ruhmann, & V. Brieske (Eds.), Dying Gods - Religious beliefs in northern and eastern Europe in the time of Christianisation (101-110). Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum Hannover In Kommission bei Konrad Theiss Verlag

Assembly Mounds in the Danelaw: Place-name and Archaeological Evidence in the Historic Landscape (2015)
Journal Article
Skinner, A., & Semple, S. (2015). Assembly Mounds in the Danelaw: Place-name and Archaeological Evidence in the Historic Landscape. Journal of the North Atlantic, 8(sp8), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.3721/037.002.sp809

The mound as a focus for early medieval assembly is found widely throughout Northern Europe in the first millennium AD. Some have argued such features are evidence of early practices situated around places of ancestral importance, others that an elit... Read More about Assembly Mounds in the Danelaw: Place-name and Archaeological Evidence in the Historic Landscape.

Wearmouth and Jarrow: Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape (2013)
Book
Turner, S., Semple, S., & Turner, A. (2013). Wearmouth and Jarrow: Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape. University of Hertfordshire Press

The Anglo-Saxon monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow were amongst the most sophisticated centres of learning and artistic culture in seventh- and eighth-century Europe. As home to the great scholar Bede, their intellectual legacy was felt throughout t... Read More about Wearmouth and Jarrow: Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape.

Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England: Religion, Ritual and Rulership in the Landscape (2013)
Book
Semple, S. (2013). Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England: Religion, Ritual and Rulership in the Landscape. Oxford University Press

Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England represents an unparalleled exploration of the place of prehistoric monuments in the Anglo-Saxon psyche, and examines how Anglo-Saxon communities perceived and used these monuments during the perio... Read More about Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England: Religion, Ritual and Rulership in the Landscape.

Making Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England (2012)
Book Chapter
Jones, R., & Semple, S. (2012). Making Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England. In R. Jones, & S. Semple (Eds.), Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England (1-17). Shaun Tyas

Anglo-Saxon non-funerary weapon depositions (2011)
Book Chapter
Reynolds, A., & Semple, S. (2011). Anglo-Saxon non-funerary weapon depositions. In S. Brookes, S. Harrington, & A. Reynolds (Eds.), Studies in Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology: Papers in Honour of Martin G. Welch (40-48). (BAR, British Series 527). Archaeopress

Witchcraft and Deep Time - a debate at Harvard (2010)
Journal Article
Mitchell, S., Price, N., Hutton, R., Raudvere, C., Severi, C., Aldhouse-Green, M., …Ginzburg, C. (2010). Witchcraft and Deep Time - a debate at Harvard. Antiquity, 84(325), 864-79

In the Open Air (2010)
Book Chapter
Semple, S. (2010). In the Open Air. In M. Carver, A. Sanmark, & S. Semple (Eds.), Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited. Oxbow

Places of Assembly: New Discoveries in Sweden and England (2008)
Journal Article
Sanmark, A., & Semple, S. (2008). Places of Assembly: New Discoveries in Sweden and England. Fornvännen, 103(4), 245-259

This paper reviews recent field results from Sweden and England demonstrating that currently held perceptions of assembly-sites as archaic and cultic are only partially accurate. Evidence has emerged for the purposeful creation of assembly locations... Read More about Places of Assembly: New Discoveries in Sweden and England.

Defining the OE Hearg: a preliminary archaeological and topographic examination of hearg place names and their hinterlands (2007)
Journal Article
Semple, S. (2007). Defining the OE Hearg: a preliminary archaeological and topographic examination of hearg place names and their hinterlands. Early Medieval Europe, 15(4), 364-385. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0254.2007.00212.x

The OE term hearg is interpreted variously as 'pagan temple', 'hilltop sanctuary' and even 'idol'. It is a rare survival in the English place-name record. When it can be identified, the place name is commonly considered to refer to a location of pre-... Read More about Defining the OE Hearg: a preliminary archaeological and topographic examination of hearg place names and their hinterlands.

Early Medieval Mortuary Practices. (2007)
Book
Semple, S., & Williams, H. (Eds.). (2007). Early Medieval Mortuary Practices. Oxbow Books

This volume represents a collection of twenty papers with a broad focus extending beyond Anglo-Saxon England with coverage of Scandinavian and Continental topics.

Introduction. (2004)
Book Chapter
Pantos, A., & Semple, S. (2004). Introduction. In A. Pantos, & S. Semple (Eds.), Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe (11-23). Four Courts Press

Locations of Assembly in Early Anglo-Saxon England (2004)
Book Chapter
Semple, S. (2004). Locations of Assembly in Early Anglo-Saxon England. In A. Pantos, & S. Semple (Eds.), Assembly places and practices in medieval Europe (135-154). Four Courts Press

This paper reviews the potential of complex cemeteries of the C6th to C7th AD as early places of gathering and assembly.

Illustrations of Damnation in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2003)
Journal Article
Semple, S. (2003). Illustrations of Damnation in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. Anglo-Saxon England, 32, 231-245. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0263675103000115

This paper interprets a group of innovative illustrations from the eleventh century English manuscript, the Harley Psalter, in the context of textual, documentary, place-name and archaeological evidence for an uniquely late Anglo-Saxon conception of... Read More about Illustrations of Damnation in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.

Boundaries in Early Medieval Britain. (2003)
Book
Griffiths, D., Reynolds, A., & Semple, S. (Eds.). (2003). Boundaries in Early Medieval Britain. Oxbow Books

This volume focuses on the topic of 'boundaries'. The theme of boundaries is embedded at all levels of early medieval society. Concepts of belonging, exclusion, power and status are all themes related to boundary studies that can be found operating f... Read More about Boundaries in Early Medieval Britain..

Burials and Political Boundaries in the Avebury region, North Wiltshire (2003)
Journal Article
Semple, S. (2003). Burials and Political Boundaries in the Avebury region, North Wiltshire. Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history, 12, 72-91

This paper explores the burial record of North Wiltshire and argues that the preponderance of barrow burials and common use of ancient remains as well as a number of isolated barrow burials relates particularly to the status of this region as a fluct... Read More about Burials and Political Boundaries in the Avebury region, North Wiltshire.

An Anglo-Saxon Decapitation and Burial at Stonehenge (2002)
Journal Article
Pitts, M., Bayliss, A., McKinley, J., Bylston, A., Budd, P., Evans, J., …Semple, S. (2002). An Anglo-Saxon Decapitation and Burial at Stonehenge. Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine (1982), 95, 131-146

Most of a human skeleton excavated at Stonehenge in 1923, believed destroyed in the London bombing of 1941, was re-located in 1999. New study of the bones shows them to represent a man of Anglo-Saxon era (not Neolithic or Roman as previously suggeste... Read More about An Anglo-Saxon Decapitation and Burial at Stonehenge.