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06 September 2017
Elizabeth Craig-Atkins, Stephen Maddock, et al.
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This
project was funded by the University of Sheffield Digital Humanities
Exploration Fund in 2015.
The project integrated computer science and archaeological approaches
in an investigation of the subterranean medieval charnel chapel of Holy Trinity
church in Rothwell (Northamptonshire), which houses one of only two remaining in situ medieval ossuaries in England. The
chapel, which was constructed during the 13th century, houses
disinterred human skeletal remains radiocarbon dated to the 13th-15th
and 18th-19th centuries. While medieval charnelling was a
European-wide phenomenon, evidence has largely been lost in England following
the early 16th-century Reformation, and Rothwell is the most
complete surviving example of a charnel chapel with in situ medieval remains. Recent research within...
Archaeology not elsewhere classified
Applied computing not elsewhere classified
point cloud data sets
archaeology-based
human remains
funerary archaeology
Archaeology
Applied Computer Science