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New Bunhill Fields burial ground, Southwark : excavations at Globe Academy, 2008

Title: New Bunhill Fields burial ground, Southwark : excavations at Globe Academy, 2008 / Adrian Miles with Brian Connell.
Author: Miles, Adrian.
Publication: London : Museum of London Archaeology, 2012.

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xii, 115 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color); 30 cm.

Summary

Documentary sources suggest that from c 1821-53 up to 33,000 burials may have taken place in the commercial Nonconformist burial ground at New Bunhill Fields, Southwark. Excavation of 827 wooden coffin burials in 2008 allows comparisons of the use of the burial ground, coffin furniture and burial finds with other contemporary cemeteries. Of particular interest is the good level of preservation of floral remains in a childs coffin, ceramic plates in a womans coffin and good examples of burial clothing. The 514 skeletons selected for full osteological analysis, demonstrating a broad spectrum of disease conditions, provide a wealth of information about life and death in this area of 19th-century London.

Series Statement

MOLA archaeology studies series ; 24

Uniform Title

MOLA archaeology studies series ; 24.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Location and circumstances of fieldwork -- 1.2.Archaeological methodology -- 1.3.Historical and archaeological background -- 1.4.Organisation of the report -- 1.5.Textual and graphical conventions used in this report -- 2.The history of the New Bunhill Fields burial ground (c1821-53) -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.The burial-ground chapel -- 2.3.The operation of the burial ground -- 2.4.The catchment area and population -- The registers -- Dissenters in Southwark -- 3.The archaeological sequence -- 3.1.Archaeological sample size and burial density -- 3.2.Dating -- 3.3.Use of the burial ground -- Layout -- Multiple burials -- Orientation -- Age and sex distributions -- Coffins -- Coffin furniture -- Deposits within coffins -- Unusual burials -- 3.4.The undertaking trade -- 4.Burial finds -- 4.1.Personal and clothing-related items -- Jewellery -- Crucifix and beads -- Hairpins -- Buttons -- 4.2.Other items deliberately placed with burials -- Ceramic and pewter plates -- Coins -- 4.3.Items probably associated with funerary textiles -- Pins -- 4.4.Textiles -- 4.5.Plant remains -- 4.6.Finds groupings by gender and age -- Subadults -- Male adults -- Female adults -- 5.The human remains -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Materials and methods -- Sample design -- Osteological methodology -- Recovery and preservation -- 5.3.Physical anthropology -- Population structure -- Adult height -- Skeletal indices -- 5.4.Evidence of disease -- Congenital and developmental defects -- Skeletal dysplasias: osteogenesis imperfecta -- Metabolic disease -- Neoplastic disease -- Infectious disease -- Joint disease -- Trauma -- Dental disease -- 5.5.Evidence for post-mortem examination -- 5.6.The named subsample: skeletons with biographic data -- 6.Conclusions -- 7.Appendices -- 7.1.Catalogue of burial finds -- Personal and clothing-related items -- Other items deliberately placed with burials -- Items probably associated with funerary textiles -- Textiles -- 7.2.Coffin breastplates.

ISBN

9781907586095
1907586091

OCLC

ocn772974973
772974973
SCSB-1664073

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library