Two recently discovered colour photos of 1939 excavation of the 7thC Sutton Hoo ship burial: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8292937/Unseen-photographs-of-1939-excavation-of-Sutton-Hoo-discovered.html …pic.twitter.com/5K69OJlTZl
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@Archatgs @Rachel5742 (tho' def significant cultural+temporal distance between Volga burial and Sutton Hoo which needs to be kept in mind!)
.@caitlinrgreen @Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan the dealing w/ the body of dead person is something important in old & modern cultures>
@caitlinrgreen @Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan >so let us limit ourselves in Viking's culture.
@Archatgs @Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan Not comparing AS w/ Viking is safer, but still worth bearing in mind poss of signif variation---for >
@Archatgs @Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan > ex, in ASE have both ship burial+seated burial (https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/546750629943992320 …), & both v rare indeed!
.@caitlinrgreen @Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan did Anglo-Saxons burn their deads, in any period of their history in Britain?
@Archatgs @Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan Both ASs+Vikings cremated, & some evidence for boat-cremations in Scand eg https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hEawXSP4AVwC&pg=PA152#v=onepage&q&f=false …
@caitlinrgreen @Archatgs @aethelflaedfan Just read an extract and feeling rather sorry for the slave girl who had to follow her dead master!
@Rachel5742 @caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan extract of book of Ibn Fadlan, about Volga Vikings?
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