Death, Burial and Identity: 3000 Years of Death in the Vale of Mowbray Digital Monograph, 2019

This collection comprises the 2019 monograph Death, Burial and Identity: 3000 Years of Death in the Vale of Mowbray. accompanied by figures and appendices. The volume is the first of three monographs that present the results of archaeological excavations between Leeming and Barton in North Yorkshire. The work took place between 2013 and 2017 as part of Highway Englands upgrade of 19km of the A1 to motorway status. This first volume examines the extensive burial record from the road scheme - the excavations revealed 308 human burials at 14 locations, which ranged in date from the Early Bronze Age to the Anglo-Saxon period - and discusses the evidence in relation to what it can tell us about concepts of death, burial and identity and how these changed through time.