An incomplete early early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon, c.500-600) gilded copper-alloy zoomorphic plate bird brooch with garnet eye detail from Hampshire. Image: Hampshire Cultural Trust (CC BY 4.0). See K. Hinds 2017 HAMP-0ABB4E: A EARLY MEDIEVAL BROOCH

Change Of Burial Tradition Among The People of Early Medieval Europe

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the middle of the sixth century AD, traditional furnished burial changed to (those with grave goods to include jewelry, dress accessories, tools, and personal items, etc) to ‘unfurnished’ (those without grave goods). This transition took place among the people of western medieval Europe, and the unfurnished inhumation method of […]