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Crypt archaeology after Spitalfields: dealing with our recent dead

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Margaret Cox
Margaret Cox*
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School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB, England
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A decade ago, the crammed burial-vaults under Christ Church, Spitalfields, a fine English Baroque church in east-central London designed by Hawksmoor, were archaeologically excavated. This pioneering work in the post-medieval archaeology of our own culture's burial practice has not been followed up. Why?

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997, pp. 8 - 10
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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