The Killing Bone by Peter Saxon5/9/2023 The fragment of carved relief in the Winchester City MuseumĪnother delightful offering is sure to be ‘ Danish Royal Burials in Winchester: Cnut and his Family’, by Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle. It’s not all cut and thrust, of course, and I, for one, look forward to reading about ‘ Orc of Abbotsbury and Tole of Tolpuddle’, who according to Ann Williams, enjoyed ‘ A place in the country’. Among other dark offerings is ‘ Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: The Discovery and Excavation of an Early Medieval Mass Burial’ by Angela Boyle. Thomas Williams looks at ‘ The Place of Slaughter: Exploring the West Saxon Battlescape’, while the aptly-named Derek Gore conducts ‘ A Review of Viking Attacks in Western England’. The book stems from a conference held at the University back in 2011, but the editors also widened their net to include contributions from a number of specialists who were not at the original event.Īs might be expected from a volume which covers a period when the power of the sword was more influential than the power of the word, a good number of the papers are about warfare. To Winchester City Museum, for the launch of a new book ‘ Danes in Wessex’, edited by Ryan Lavelle and Simon Roffey of the University of Winchester.
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