Raunds, Northamptonshire: Analysis of a country churchyard

Excavations at Raunds, Northamptonshire have revealed a complete, relatively undisturbed Anglo‐Saxon church and graveyard of the tenth and eleventh centuries A.D. The church was made redundant at the beginning of the twelfth century, ending burial before the earliest burial patterns had been obscured by a second generation of graves. Analysis of the sequence and structure of the cemetery has revealed that it expanded in a series of distinct zones. Differences in burial patterns occur between zones. These and other cemetery‐wide trends have been studied by a blend of statistical and archaeological techniques.