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King Edwin's Palace: Forgetting Gefrin, Elements of the Past in the Past at Yeavering

by Paul Frodsham

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Contents:

1.	Introduction
2.	Yeavering: a special landscape
3.	A brief introduction to the archaeology of Yeavering
4.	The future of Yeavering's past: some suggestions for further work
5.	What's in a name: 'Yeavering'?
6.	Magicians and metal workers? A possible 'afterlife' for the Yeavering henge
7.	Burials and the Battle Stone: some aspects of Paganism and Christianity
8.	Defence or Display? The Hillfort
9.	Farms and Fields as Ritual Monuments?
10.	Ad Gefrin and Beowulf: the Anglo-Saxon palace complex
11.	'The Old Palace'
12.	Conclusion: remembering and forgetting Gefrin
13.	Acknowledgements and References

Plates:

1.	Air photograph by Tim Gates, looking northwards over Yeavering Bell hillfort.
2.	The 'Battle Stone' at Yeavering.
3.	Part of the ancient and possibly multi-phase field system to the south-east of the hillfort.

Figures:

1a.	The RCHME survey of Yeavering Bell hillfort by Keith Blood and Trevor Pearson. (Copyright RCHME).
1b.	Conjectural reconstruction of Yeavering Bell hillfort in around 300BC, by Eric Dale.
2.	Two conjectural reconstructions of significant events in Yeavering's history by Mike Ritchie.
2b.	Paulinus baptising locals in the River Glen, with Ad Gefrin in the background. (Copyright Mike Ritchie).

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