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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.

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.

Witchcraft and Deep Time - a debate at Harvard (2010)
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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

Places of Assembly: New Discoveries in Sweden and England (2008)
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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.

Illustrations of Damnation in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2003)
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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.

Burials and Political Boundaries in the Avebury region, North Wiltshire (2003)
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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.