Religious Individualisation by Ralph Haeussler;Anthony King;

Author:Ralph Haeussler;Anthony King;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

What seems to emerge from a more holistic and qualitative approach to burial assemblages is an alternative view of the ‘mechanism’ driving the development of a new creolised style of mortuary ritual in south-east England in the first to early fourth centuries: a dialectic between structure and agents where deposition of burial contents was perhaps increasingly an area for diversification and improvisation.

The typical framework for the Romano-British cremation burial rituals would no doubt include such general traits as deposition of cremated bone within primary containers that were more often than not ceramic, and most often local jar forms, frequently associated with accessory vessels such as flagons or flasks, beakers or cups, dishes or bowls. This overall ‘vocabulary’, ‘grammar’ or ‘structure’ should not be allowed to overshadow particular regional, local or site-level traditions, however, or the diverse ways in which such components were translated and articulated in particular burials in the context of ritual improvisation. Our data collection and analytical frameworks need to accommodate and interrogate diversity alongside homogeneity: the improvisation of each and every burial in Roman Britain and beyond is just as significant as the ways in which each might ‘fit’ within broader patterns.

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