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The Early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterized archaeologically by the regular deposition of artefacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has long been studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronological problems of the material than to solve them. Studying the evidence anew using a co-ordinated suite of dating techniques, both traditional and new, Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD seeks to address many of these issues.

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As a result of a similar Bayesian re-dating exercise to the one that produced a new chronology for Neolithic monuments and practices two years ago, we now have a much clearer idea of the chronology of the Anglo-Saxon Conversion period, the sixth and seventh centuries AD. SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newsletter Issue 306, Oct' 2013 The editors are aware that the subject is of interest both to Anglo-Saxon specialists, and, for its methodological innovations and implications for archaeology in general, to a wider audience. So attempts have been made to explain specialist studies for those with little or no knowledge of the material. -- Mike Pitts British Archaeology March/April 2014

As a result of a similar Bayesian re-dating exercise to the one that produced a new chronology for Neolithic monuments and practices two years ago, we now have a much clearer idea of the chronology of the Anglo-Saxon Conversion period, the sixth and seventh centuries AD. SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newsletter Issue 306, Oct' 2013

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Alex Bayliss is a British archaeologist, Head of Scientific Dating at Historic England, and a part-time Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Stirling in Scotland.John Hines is Professor of Archaeology at School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University.

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