Sceattas in Anglo-Saxon Graves |
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| Authors: | Christopher Scull John Naylor |
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| Institution: | 1. Christopher Scull, Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU, UK. ScullCJ@cardiff.ac.uk;2. John Naylor, National Finds Advisor for Medieval and Post-Medieval Coinage, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH, UK. john.naylor@ashmus.ox.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | ANGLO-SAXON SILVER PENNIES (sceattas) are rare as gravegoods, but their provision was a regular element of burial practice in a small minority of later 7th-century-furnished inhumations and later burials. Although the number both of coins and burials is very small, they show patterns of deposition and treatment that have both a cultural and a broader chronological significance. This sample provides a window on social and symbolic attitudes to the coinages as elements of the broader material culture of contemporary society, and constitutes important corroborating evidence that the Primary Phase issues embodied a new degree of monetisation in 7th-century England. |
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| Keywords: | NAA Northern Archaeological Associates PAS Portable Antiquities Scheme |
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