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This paper investigates the origins of British Anglo-Saxonarchaeology by focusing on the work of one early Victorian archaeologist: RichardCornwallis Neville. The seemingly descriptive and parochial nature of Neville’sarchaeological pursuits, together with the attention he afforded to Romano-Britishremains, has impeded due recognition, and critical scrutiny, of his contributions to thedevelopment of early Medieval burial archaeology. Using his archaeological publicationsas source material, I will show how Neville’s interpretations of Saxon graves were aform of memory work, defining his personal, familial and martial identity in relation tothe landscape and locality of his aristocratic home at Audley End, near Saffron Walden,Essex. Subsequently, I argue that Neville’s prehistoric and Romano-British discoveriesreveal his repeated concern with the end of Roman Britain and its barbarian successors.Finally, embodied within Neville’s descriptions of early Medieval graves and theirlocation we can identify a pervasive Anglo-Saxonism. Together these strands of argumentcombine to reveal how, for Neville, Saxon graves constituted a hitherto unwritten firstchapter of English history that could be elucidated through material culture andlandscape

Saxon Obsequies: the Early Medieval Archaeology of Richard Cornwallis Neville