Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Romano-British Decapitation Burials: A Comparison of Osteological Evidence and Burial Ritual from Two Cemeteries
AU  - Bush H
AU  - Stirland A
Y1  - 1991
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 205
EP  - 210
KW  - Romano-British
KW  - Cirencester
KW  - Ashton
KW  - Decapitation
N2  - 
N2  - Fifty-six 1st to 4th centrury British cemeteries show evidence for decapitation; twenty-six of these cemeteries are apparently late Roman. Evidence from two such will be presented: of the 421 individuals from Cirencester, at least nine given evidence for the employment of different methods of decapitation, which will be described, and possible explanations for the ritual will be offered.
ER  -