Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery
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Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery is a place of burial that was used in the seventh and eighth centuries AD. It is located close to the hamlet of Polhill, near Sevenoaks in Kent, South-East England. Belong
Small tumuli would have covered a number of the burials at Polhill. This is a larger example from Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.
Burial in Anglo-Saxon England refers to the grave and burial customs followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the mid 5th and 11th centuries CE in Early Mediaeval England. The variation of the practice pe
Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery
…hamlet of Polhill, near Sevenoaks in Kent, South-East England. Belonging to the Middle Anglo-Saxon period, it was part of the much wider tradition of burial in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Polhill was an inhumation-only cemetery, with no evidence of cremation. An estimated 180 to 200 graves were placed there, containing between 200 and…
Inhumation at Sutton Hoo under archaeological excavation
Anglo-Saxon cremation was open and public, like that in contemporary South Asia (pictured).
Funerary urn from the Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
Early cemeteries of possible Settler origin