Granite memorial surmounted by a draped urn at Kellington Churchyard
Granite memorial surmounted by a draped urn at Kellington Churchyard
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in post-medieval and recent material culture, and that associated with death has received some attention. In North America there is a long tradition of studying memorials in burial grounds and cemet eries, from a range of perspectives. In Britain, however, work has been limited and relatively little has been published. Following the seminal work by Burgess in 1963, and the pleas for recording within the Rescue movement (Jones 1976), some work was undertaken, most notably at Llangar (Shoesmith 1980). Few studies have subsequently emerged and these, such as that at Wharram Percy (Rahtz and Watts 1983< /A>), have tended to be too small in scale to deliver any substantial results. More recent research has concentrated on specific issues using graveyard data, such as emotion (Tarlow 1 992), use of language (Mytum 1994), and the spatial patterning of burial within a churchyard (Mytum 1996). These are more informative, but there is still no general background typology and descriptive base beyond that of Burgess (1963).
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