{"product_id":"st-peter-s-barton-upon-humber-lincolnshire-a-parish-church-and-its-community-book-t-waldron-9781842172834","title":"St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire - A Parish Church and its Community","description":"The excavations at St Peter's church, Barton-upon-Humber,  between 1978 and 1984 have yielded the largest collection of  human remains in the UK, dating from the late tenth century to  the mid-nineteenth. The twin aims of the project were to  understand the architectural history and setting of this complex,  multi-period building (Volume 1), and to recover a substantial  sample of the population for palaeopathological study (Volume 2).  An extensive programme of historical and topographical research  also took place in order to set the archaeological evidence  firmly in context. The parish registers, which extend back to the  mid-sixteenth century, were transcribed, and these provide an  important demographic overview of the population. The cemetery  evidence revealed that the population is entirely secular,  representing a cross-section of all levels of society living in  the town and its hinterland. In total, 2,750 inhumations were  examined, but there were also thousands of disarticulated bones -  approximately three tons in weight - which could only be given  the briefest examination. Those who were buried at St Peter's  were subject not only to the normal visitations of disease and  trauma but suffered an outbreak of the plague in 1593, when about  a fifth of the population was lost. Taking the long view over the  entire period, however, it is striking how many of the marks of  health and vigour, popularly supposed to have changed  substantially between the middle ages and the Victorian era, have  remained relatively constant. Together, the two volumes provide  fascinating insights into that mainstay of settlement - the small  English market town.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49587662127377,"sku":"GOR006894170","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1842172832.jpg?v=1750833442","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/st-peter-s-barton-upon-humber-lincolnshire-a-parish-church-and-its-community-book-t-waldron-9781842172834","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}