to a tiny carved peg. this little object is manufactured from animal bone. it could be a peg for fora gaming board. kind of cribbage or some sort of game? yes, yes. a medieval version. yes, something like that. it suggests people were coming to the cemetery to meet up, eat and drink the living and the dead existing together. we tend to think of graveyards as sort of enclosed spaces that we don t really go to, but they probably would have been quite central to life in the past. and it s notjust a place where people are being buried, but it s a place where communities are coming together. they are burying their dead, but they re also undertaking other forms of activity and social practice, including eating and drinking and feasting. no nearby settlement has yet been found and the dig is creating a perplexing picture. the items unearthed in the cemetery suggest wealth
perhaps from north africa, to a tiny carved peg. this little object is manufactured from animal bone. it could be a peg for fora gaming board. kind of cribbage or some sort of game? yes, yes. a medieval version. yes, something like that. it suggests people were coming to the cemetery to meet up, eat and drink the living and the dead existing together. we tend to think of graveyards as sort of enclosed spaces that we don t really go to, but they probably would have been quite central to life in the past. and it s notjust a place where people are being buried, but it s a place where communities are coming together. they are burying their dead, but they re also undertaking other forms of activity and social practice, including eating and drinking and feasting. no nearby settlement has yet been found and the dig is creating a perplexing picture. the items unearthed in the cemetery suggest wealth that the people there
fora gaming board. kind of cribbage or some sort of game? yes, yes. a medieval version. yes, something like that. it suggests people were coming to the cemetery to meet up, eat and drink the living and the dead existing together. we tend to think of graveyards as sort of enclosed spaces that we don t really go to, but they probably would have been quite central to life in the past. and it s notjust a place where people are being buried, but it s a place where communities are coming together. they are burying their dead, but they re also undertaking other forms of activity and social practice, including eating and drinking and feasting. no nearby settlement has yet been found and the dig is creating a perplexing picture. the items unearthed in the cemetery suggest wealth that the people there were of high status. that s what we re trying to find out as part of our work is what exactly is going on, who are these people being buried here? the people interred here have access
kind of cribbage or some sort of game? yes, yes. a medieval version. yes, something like that. it suggests people were coming to the cemetery to meet up, eat and drink the living and the dead existing together. we tend to think of graveyards as sort of enclosed spaces that we don t really go to, but they probably would have been quite central to life in the past. and it s notjust a place where people are being buried, but it s a place where communities are coming together. they are burying their dead, but they re also undertaking other forms of activity and social practice, including eating and drinking and feasting. no nearby settlement has yet been found and the dig is creating a perplexing picture. the items unearthed in the cemetery suggest wealth that the people there were of high status. that s what we re trying to find out as part of our work is what exactly is going on, who are these people being buried here? the people interred here have access to very high quality importe