Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD

3.4.3 Equipment capacity and performance -- 3.4.4 Programming and personnel capacity -- 3.4.5 Availability and suitability of human skeletal remains -- 4 The Human Skeletons -- 4.1 A Note on the Osteology of the Human Burials -- 4.1.1 Methods -- 4.1.2 Results -- 4.2 Carbon and Nitrogen Stable-isotope and Amino-acid Screening for Quality Assurance -- 4.2.1 Carbon/nitrogen (C:N) ratios -- 4.2.2 Amino-acid analysis -- 4.2.3 Discussion of stable-isotope and amino-acid results for quality assurance -- 4.3 Stable Isotopes and Diet -- 4.3.1 Dietary analysis -- 4.4 Anglo-Saxon Diets: The Effects of Sex, Age and Geography -- 4.5 Conclusions -- 5 Typology -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 BU: Buckles and belt-fittings -- 5.3 SB: Shield Bosses -- 5.4 SP: Spearheads -- 5.5 SW: Swords and Scabbard-mounts -- 5.6 Seaxes, Seax-pommels, and Sheath-fittings -- 5.7 BE: Beads -- 5.8 PE: Pendants -- 5.9 WR: Wire Rings -- 5.10 BR: Brooches -- 5.11 PI: Dress Pins -- 5.12 Accessories, tools, personal equipment and vessels -- 6 Interpretative Chronologies for the Male Graves -- 6.1 Radiocarbon Dates -- 6.2 An Archaeological Model -- 6.3 Male Artefact-types -- 6.3.1 Currencies -- 6.3.2 Phyletic seriation -- 6.4 Seriation by Correspondence Analysis -- 6.4.1 Constructing and phasing a sequence -- 6.4.2 Incorporating further chronological data within the framework -- 6.5 Sensitivity Analyses -- 6.5.1 Radiocarbon calibration -- 6.5.2 'Uninformative' prior information -- 6.5.3 Continental parallels with calendar dates -- 6.5.4 Dietary effects -- 6.6 Dating of Typological Series -- 6.6.1 Buckles and belt-fittings -- 6.6.2 Swords and scabbard-mounts -- 6.6.3 Seaxes and seax-fittings -- 6.6.4 Shield bosses -- 6.6.5 Spearheads -- 6.7 Conclusions -- 7 Interpretative Chronologies for the Female Graves -- 7.1 Radiocarbon Dates -- 7.2 An Archaeological Model -- 7.3 Female Artefact-types