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Excavations at Christ Church, Spitalfields 1984–6

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Max Adams  and
Jez Reeve
Max Adams
Affiliation:
Christ Church Spitalfields Archaeological Project, 22A Hanbury Street, London E1
Jez Reeve
Affiliation:
Christ Church Spitalfields Archaeological Project, 22A Hanbury Street, London E1
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The Spitalfields project, now moving from the field to laboratory analysis, takes the archaeological study of human burial into new areas. The preliminary results, reported here, have importance for the archaeology of Christian death and – beyond that – for wider questions in mortuary study and inference from skeletal remains and their disposition.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 232 , July 1987 , pp. 247 - 256
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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