Cemetery Features
The Snape Anglo-Saxon cemetery has an east-west dimension of approximately 200 metres and a north-south dimension of approximately 70 metres. The ratio of the cremation to inhumation burials was approximately 1:1. Unlike at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery of Spong Hill in Norfolk, at Snape, these cremations and inhumations were not spatially divided, with both rites being completely intermixed and largely contemporary with one another.
At least nine – and possibly ten – tumuli, or burial mounds, were erected at the site.
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