Research Catalog

Title

"Safe moor'd in Greenwich tier" : a study of the skeletons of Royal Navy sailors and marines excavated at the Royal Hospital Greenwich / by Ceridwen Boston [and others] ; with contributions by Leigh Allen [and others] ; illustrations by Markus Dylewski, Amy Hemingway, and George Slater.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford Archaeology, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boston, Ceri.
• Allen, Leigh.

Description

xi, 157 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford Archaeology monograph ; 5

Uniform Title

Oxford Archaeology monograph ; no. 5.

Subject

• Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
• London-Greenwich > Marinehospital
• 1700-1899
• Geschichte 1749-1857
• Excavations (Archaeology) > England > London
• Sailors > Death
• Forensic anthropology
• Sailors > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Sailors > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Burial > England > London > History > 18th century
• Burial > England > London > History > 19th century
• Medical jurisprudence
• Dead
• Burial
• Forensic Medicine
• Cadaver
• Skeleton
• Military Personnel
• Burial
• Forensic Anthropology
• forensic medicine
• Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Sailors
• Osteologie
• Skelettfund
• Greenwich (London, England) > Antiquities
• London
• England > London
• England > London > Greenwich
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-157).

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Project Background -- Archaeological and Historical Background -- Project Aims -- Fieldwork Methodology -- Ch. 2. Burial Ground and Greenwich Pensioners -- Burial Ground -- Royal Hospital Over Time -- Social History of the Greenwich Pensioners -- Life of In-Pensioners in the Hospital -- Women and Children at the Royal Hospital -- Ch. 3. Results of the Fieldwork -- Fieldwork Results -- Ch. 4. Human Skeletal Remains -- Preservation and Completeness -- Palaeodemography -- Stature Estimation -- Skeletal Pathology -- Discussion -- Ch. 5. Coffins and Coffin Fittings -- Historic Background -- Coffin Construction and Decoration -- Discussion -- Appendix 1. Selected Trafalgar Veterans Who Died in the Royal Hospital, Greenwich (After Ayshford and Ayshford 2004) -- Appendix 2. Grave Catalogue / Brian Dean, Lorraine Lindsay-Cale and Ceridwen Boston -- Appendix 3. Skeletal Catalogue / Nicholas Marquez-Grant and Annsofie Witkin -- Appendix 4. Coffin Fittings -- Appendix 5. Detailed Catalogue of Selected Metalwork and Textile from Graves / Lorraine Lindsay-Cale and Ceridwen Boston -- Appendix 6. Pottery / Duncan H. Brown -- Appendix 7. Clay Pipes / Angela Boyle -- Appendix 8. Glass / Leigh Allen -- Appendix 9. Ceramic Building Material / Leigh Allen -- Appendix 10. Animal Bone / Bethan Charles -- Appendix 11. Research Projects Undertaken on the Assemblage.

ISBN

• 9780904220513
• 0904220516

LCCN

2009293255

OCLC

• ocn263985150
• 263985150
• SCSB-1497404

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library