Angela Boyle (MA (Honours) in Archaeology. MA in Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology.)

Thesis title: Violence and conflict in south-east Scotland from c AD 400 to AD 850: a biocultural study.

Biography

Background

I have worked as a professional archaeologist and osteoarchaeologist across Britain for almost 30 years. From 1990-2005, I was part of the team at Oxford Archaeology where I performed a wide variety of tasks ranging from excavation, through osteoarchaeological and artefact analysis, report writing and editing, to project management. At the point when I left Oxford Archaeology  in 2005 I was running my own department which specialised in burial archaeology and osteoarchaeology. I subsequently enjoyed 3 years from 2005-2008 as Contracts Manager at GUARD (Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division). Since leaving GUARD I have been self-employed.​

I started my PhD in September 2013. 

In November 2018 I was one of the authors of an article which won the RBK Stevenson Award from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. This award is offered annually in recognition of an article published in the Proceedings on a topic that best reflects the scholarship and high standards of RBKS. 

 

 

CV

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Qualifications

I hold a first degree in Archaeology from the University of Glasgow (MA Honours; 1983-87) and a Masters degree in Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (1987-89). 

 

Responsibilities & affiliations

  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
  • Full member of the Chartered Institute of field Archaeologists (MCIfA)
  • Member of the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO).
  • Secretary of the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England (APABE) 2012-2016. Currently panel member.
  • Member of Archaeology Scotland
  • Member of Council for British Archaeology

Research summary

My experience is wide-ranging and includes cemeteries and skeletal assemblages of all periods from the Neolithic to the 19th-century. Significant projects include the excavation of an intact Iron Age chariot at Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire and a Viking mass burial at Ridgeway Hill in Weymouth. The work at Ridgeway Hill led to my interest in peri-mortem trauma which is the focus of most of my current research. Other highlights include a probable plague pit and two Roman gravestones from the cemetery at London Road, Gloucester.

 

 

Current research interests

Since 2013 I have been undertaking a part-time PhD in the department of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. The focus of my research is the evidence for violence and conflict in south-east Scotland during the early medieval period (c AD 400 – AD 850) so my study begins with the end of Roman influence and stops around the time when Scotland became a unified entity. My approach is biocultural and therefore osteological evidence will be integrated with documentary, archaeological and artefactual data in order to present a ‘bigger picture.’ Many of the assemblages included in my research were excavated in the 19th or earlier 20th century. I therefore have had the opportunity to apply modern scientific techniques to selected skeletons. These include high-precision radiocarbon dating, aDNA analysis, isotope analysis (carbon and nitrogen for dietary analysis; strontium and oxygen for origins and mobility), CT scanning, 3-D printing and facial reconstruction. The main goal of my research is to test the hypothesis that large-scale violent conflict was characteristic of the early medieval period in southern Scotland. There is a traditionally held view that the period in question was one of constant violence between Picts, Britons and Anglians. This view is largely based on documentary evidence. The artefactual evidence for weaponry in the period is notably sparse. I have analysed approximately 400 skeletons and preliminary analysis of the data suggests that the prevalence of interpersonal violence resulting in skeletal injuries (fatal or otherwise) is lower than anticipated. Most of these assemblages come from long-cist cemeteries which are a common burial rite within the study area. The incidence of violence is notably higher in burial contexts other than long cists and these are located at the interface between Picts and Angles.

Past research interests

Since 1993 I have had a keen interest in post-medieval burial archaeology and my publications include several contributions to this field. I have worked extensively on prehistoric burials from the Thames Valley

Project activity

I have worked on a wide range of projects across the UK and in Europe, excavating and recording cemeteries and skeletal assemblages which range in date from the Neolithic to the 19th century. A selection appears below. Please see my list of publications for details of other projects. 

POLYPHONIC MURDERS: A Holographic Biography of Murder

This project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration led by Dr Elena Kranioti of the University of Edinburgh between forensic anthropologists, archaeologists and artists which uses cutting edge forensic methodology to attempt to reconstruct the events leading up to fatal injuries on selected skeletons from a variety of periods. Violence is explored through a variety of artistic mediums including painting and sculpture.

FERRY FRYSTON: An Iron Age Chariot Burial

The excavation, post-excavation analysis and publication of an intact Iron Age chariot. The chariot was discovered towards the end of a major archaeological project in advance of the A1(M) widening in north Yorkshire. The burial was radiocarbon dated to the middle Iron Age and was associated with the burial of an adult male. Survival of wood and leather was extremely good and allowed us to piece together many construction details.

RIDGEWAY HILL: A Viking Mass Burial

This mass burial was discovered in 2009 during archaeological work by Oxford Archaeology in advance of the construction of the Weymouth Relief Road. A large pit contained the skeletal remains of approximately 50 Vikings, all of whom had been decapitated. Nothing comparable has ever been excavated and the discovery is therefore of international significance. The detailed report has now been published and the mass burial continues to capture the imagination of the public. It has been the subject of several television documentaries and was the inspiration for an opera entitled ‘The Chalk Legend.’

MIDLAND ROAD, PETERBOROUGH : A medieval cemetery at St Leonard’s leper hospital

Osteological analysis of an assemblage of 131 skeletons and substantial quantities of disarticulated material was carried out at the request of York Archaeological Trust in 2017. Both the layout of the cemetery and the radiocarbon dates suggest two periods of use: the first dating to the 11th-12th century relating to the foundation and early use of the hospital as a leprosarium; the second dating to the 15th-16th centuries,and representing the later medieval use of the hospital for the poor as well as for suffererers of leprosy. 

Allan, A, Chapman, A, Boyle, A, Healy, F, Humble, J, Rault, S, Windell, D and Woodiwiss, J, 2011 Minor and non-structural prehistoric features, in The Raunds Area Project. A Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape in Northamptonshire. Volume 2 Supplementary Studies (J Harding and F Healy), English Heritage, 289-298 https://doi.org/10.5284/1028203

Allan, A, Boyle, A, Crosby, V, Healy, F, Humble, J, Muldowney, L and Rault, S, 2011 Field systems and related structures, in The Raunds Area Project. A Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape in Northamptonshire. Volume 2 Supplementary Studies (J Harding and F Healy), English Heritage, 299-329 https://doi.org/10.5284/1028203

Allen, L and Dodd, A with Boyle, A, Cropper, C, Gilmour, B, Thomas, G and Youngs, S, 2004 Objects of copper alloy, iron, bone and glass, in Yarnton Saxon and Medieval settlement and landscape, (G Hey), Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 20, 277-305

Allen, T with Hacking, P and Boyle, A, 2000 Eton Rowing Course at Dorney Lake. The burial traditions, Tarmac Papers 2000, 65-106

Barclay, A Boyle, A, Bradley, P and Roberts, M, 1996 Excavations at the former Jewsons Yard, Harefield Road, Uxbridge, Transacs London and Middlesex Arch Soc 95, 1-25

Barclay, A, Boyle, A and Keevill, G D, 2001 A prehistoric enclosure at Eynsham Abbey, Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia LXVI, 105-162 http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=66

Booth, P and Boyle, A, 2008 The archaeology of Roman burials in England. Framework and methodology. A perspective from Oxford Archaeology, in Pour une archaéologie du rite. Nouvelles perspectives de l’archaéologie funéraire. Études réunies par John Scheid, Collection De L’école Française de Rome 407, 127-136

Booth, P, Boyle, A and Keevill, G, 1993 A Romano-British kiln site at Lower Farm, Nuneham Courtenay, and other sites on the Didcot to Oxford and Wootton to Abingdon water mains, Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia 58, 87-217 http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=58

Booth, P, Simmonds, A, Boyle, A, Clough, S, Cool, H E M and Poore, D, 2010 The late Roman cemetery at Lankhills, Winchester. Excavations 2000-2005, Oxford Archaeology Monograph No. 10, Oxford Archaeology, Oxford

Boston, C, Bowater, C, Boyle, A and Holmes, A, 2003 Excavation of a Bronze Age Barrow at the proposed Centre for Gene Function, South Parks Road, Oxford, 2002, Oxoniensia 68, 179-200 http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=68

Boston, C, Boyle, A and Witkin, A, 2009 In the vaults beneath – Archaeological recording at St George’s Church, Bloomsbury, Oxford Archaeology Monograph No. 8, Oxford Archaeology, Oxford https://www.academia.edu/2549870/In_the_vaults_beneath._Archaeological_recording_at_St_Georges_Church_Bloomsbury

Boston C, Witkin A, Boyle, A and Wilkinson, D R P, 2008 Safe Moor'd in Greenwich Tier. A study of the skeletons of Royal Navy sailors and marines excavated at the Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, Oxford Archaeology Monograph No. 5, Oxford Archaeology, Oxford

Boyle, A, 1992 The human remains, in Reading Business Park: a Bronze Age landscape (J Moore and D Jennings) Thames Valley Landscapes: the Kennet Valley, Volume 1, Oxford Archaeological Unit, Oxford, 98

Boyle, A, 1995a The human bone, in Excavations at the Devil's Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, 1972-3 and 1988 (A Barclay, M Gray and G Lambrick) Thames Valley Landscapes: The Windrush Valley Volume 3, Oxford Archaeological Unit, Oxford, 55

Boyle, A, 1995b The human bone, in Evaluation at St Peter's Church, Brackley, Northamptonshire Archaeology 25, (G Keevill, A Hardy, C Underwood-Keevill and A Boyle) 180-181

Boyle, A, 1995c The human bone, in Excavations of Neolithic and Bronze Age ring-ditches, Shorncote Quarry, Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire, Trans Bristol and Gloucestershire Arch Soc 113, (A Barclay and H Glass, with C Parry), 21-60

Boyle, A, 1995d The human bone, in Excavations at King's Meadow near Cirencester, Trans Bristol and Gloucestershire Arch Soc 113, (M, Roberts)

Boyle, A, 1995e Glass bead, in Excavations at the Peel Arms Site, Tamworth, Staffordshire, Trans South Staffs Arch and Hist Soc 17, (C Maloney)

Boyle, A, 1996a Report on the bones kept in St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham in St Chad of Lichfield and Birmingham (M Greenslade), Archdiocese of Birmingham Historical Commission No. 10, Stafford, 25-26

Boyle, A, 1996b Human bone in The excavation of two Bronze Age barrows, Oxford, Oxoniensia 61, (A Parkinson, A Barclay and P McKeague) http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=61

Boyle, A, 1997a The human skeletal assemblage in Asthall, Oxfordshire: excavations in a Roman `Small Town’, (P M Booth), Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 9, Oxford Archaeological Unit, Oxford, 135-137

Boyle, A, 1997b The human bone, in The excavation of two barrows at Merton, Oxfordshire (P Bradley, M Parsons and R Tyler), Oxoniensia 62, http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=62

Boyle, A, 1997c The human bone, in Archaeological investigations on the motorway service area, junction 8, M20 at Eyhorne Street, Hollingbourne, Arch Cant CXVII, 137-8

Boyle, A, 1998a The human bone, in An archaeological excavation on land adjacent to Snowy Fielder Waye, Isleworth, London Borough of Hounslow, Middlesex (C Bell), Transacs London and Middlesex Arch Soc 47 (1996), 52

Boyle, A, 1998b A report on the scientific analysis of the bones of the Anglo-Saxon bishop and saint, Chad, Church Archaeology 2, 35-8 https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AngelaBoyle

Boyle, A, 1998c The Carington burial vault, All Saints Church, High Wycombe, Oxfordshire, Church Archaeology 2, 60-1 https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AngelaBoyle

Boyle, A, 1999a (ed.) Excavations alongside Roman Ermine Street, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire: the archaeology of the A419/A417 Swindon to Gloucester road scheme (A Mudd, B Williams and A Lupton), Oxford Archaeological Unit, Oxford

Boyle, A, 1999b A grave disturbance: archaeological perceptions of the recently dead, in The loved body's corruption: archaeological contributions to the study of human mortality (ed J Downes and T Pollard), Scottish Archaeological Forum, Cruithne Press, 187-199

Boyle, A, 1999c Human remains, in Excavations at Barrow Hills, Radley, Oxfordshire Volume 1: The Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument Complex (A Barclay and C Halpin), Oxford Archaeological Unit Thames Valley Landscapes volume 11, 171-183

Boyle, A, 1999d Human skeletal material, in Excavations alongside Roman Ermin Street, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire The archaeology of the A419/A417 Swindon to Gloucester Road Scheme, (A Mudd, R J Williams and A Lupton), Oxford Archaeological Unit, Oxford, 469

Boyle, A, 2000a The human remains, in Excavations at Wyndike Furlong, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 1994, (J Muir and M R Roberts), Oxford Archaeological Unit, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 12, Oxford Archaeological Unit, Oxford

Boyle, A, 2000b The human bone, in The excavation of a late Iron Age enclosed settlement at Bicester Fields Farm, Bicester, Oxon, Oxoniensia 65, 201 http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=65

Boyle, A, 2000c Human bone, in Excavations at the Paddock, Rectory Lane, Fringford (P Blinkhorn, C Bloor and D Thomason), OAU Occasional Paper No. 6, Oxford, 28

Boyle, A, 2000d The cremated human bone, in The Good Stones, a new investigation of the Clava cairns (Richard Bradley), Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Monograph Series Number 17, Historic Scotland, 87-89, 145-151

Boyle, A, 2000e The human remains, in A Bronze Age ditch and Iron Age settlement at Elms Farm, Humberstone, Leicester, Trans Leicester Archaeol and Hist Soc 74, (B M Charles, A Parkinson and S Foreman), 196-197

Boyle, A, 2000f The worked bone assemblage, in Prehistoric and Roman settlement near Heyford Road, Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia 65, 187-189 http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=65

Boyle, A, 2000g Grave catalogue, in Archaeological investigations during refurbishment of St Aldate’s church, Oxford, Oxoniensia 66, (R Tyler), 395-398 http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=65

Boyle, A, 2001a Jet bead in Beaumont Palace and the Whitefriars: excavations at the Sackler Library, Beaumont Street, Oxford, (D Poore and D R P Wilkinson), OAU Occasional Paper No, 9, Oxford, 61-62

Boyle, A, 2001b Human skeletal remains, in Beaumont Palace and the Whitefriars: excavations at the Sackler Library, Beaumont Street, Oxford, (D Poore and D R P Wilkinson), OAU Occasional Paper No, 9, Oxford, 82

Boyle, A, 2001c Human skeletal assemblage, in Site of former Hockley Chemical Works, Stratford Road, Alcester: excavations 1994, Transacs Birmingham and Warwickshire Journal 104, 45-49

Boyle, A, 2001d The human bone, in Excavation of multi-period sites at Lodge Lane, Addington, Geoffrey Harris House and Lloyd Park, South Croydon (C Bell), Surrey Archaeol Collections 88, 262

Boyle, A, 2001e Excavations in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxoniensia LXVI, 337-368 http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=66

Boyle, A, 2002a The human skeletal assemblage, in Excavations in the extramural settlement of Roman Alchester, Oxfordshire, 1991 A41 (formerly A421) Wendelbury-Bicester dualling, (P M Booth, J Evans and J Hiller), Oxford Archaeology Monograph No. 1, Oxford Archaeology, Oxford, 385-394

Boyle, A, 2002b The Romano-British Cemetery, in Excavations at Melford Meadows, Brettenham, 1994 (A Mudd), East Anglian Archaeology Report No 99, 35-51

Boyle, A, 2002c Copper alloy finds, Excavations at Melford Meadows, Brettenham, 1994 (A Mudd), East Anglian Archaeology Report No 99, 71-73

Boyle, A, 2002d Iron objects, Excavations at Melford Meadows, Brettenham, 1994 (A Mudd), East Anglian Archaeology Report No 99, 73-74

Boyle, A, 2002e Miscellaneous Romano-British small finds, Excavations at Melford Meadows, Brettenham, 1994 (A Mudd), East Anglian Archaeology Report No 99, 76

Boyle, A, 2002f The human bone, in Gathering the people, settling the land. The archaeology of a middle Thames landscape: Anglo-Saxon to post-medieval, Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 14, Oxford, 96

Boyle, A, 2002g Human bone, in Shorncote Quarry; excavations of a late prehistoric landscape in the Upper Thames Valley, 1997 and 1998, Trans Bristol and Glos Arch Soc 120, (A Brossler, M Gocher, G Laws and M Roberts, 69-70

Boyle, A, 2003a The human skeletal assemblage, in Excavations at Eynsham Abbey, 1989-1992, (G D Keevill, A Hardy and A Dodd), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Volume 16, Oxford University School of Archaeology, Oxford, 433-438

Boyle, A, 2003b The beads, in Excavations at Eynsham Abbey, 1989-1992, (G D Keevill, A Hardy and A Dodd), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Volume 16, 296

Boyle, A, 2003c Worked bone, in Uffington White Horse and its landscape. Investigations at White Horse Hill Uffington, 1989-95 and Tower Hill, Ashbury, 1993-4, (D Miles, S Palmer, G Lock, C Gosden, and A M Cromarty) Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Volume 18, Oxford, 181

Boyle, A, 2003d Human bone, Uffington White Horse and its landscape. Investigations at White Horse Hill Uffington, 1989-95 and Tower Hill, Ashbury, 1993-4, (D Miles, S Palmer, G Lock, C Gosden, and A M Cromarty) Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Volume 18, Oxford, 191-192

Boyle, A, 2003e Human bone, in The West Gate at Oxford Castle: excavations at Boreham’s Castle, Tidmarsh Lane, Oxford, 1994-5 (P Booth), Oxoniensia LXVIII, 410

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Boyle, A, 2004a What price compromise? Archaeological investigations at St Bartholomew's Church, Penn, Wolverhampton, Church Archaeology 5-6, 69-78

Boyle, A, 2004b The shale bracelet, in Excavations at Reading Business Park Phase 2: A Neolithic ring ditch, a middle Bronze Age field system and a later Bronze Age settlement (A Brossler, R Early and C Allen) Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Volume 19, 98

Boyle, A, 2004c The worked bone assemblage, in Excavations at Reading Business Park Phase 2: A Neolithic ring ditch, a middle Bronze Age field system and a later Bronze Age settlement (A Brossler, R Early and C Allen) Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Volume 19, 99

Boyle, A, 2004d The human skeletal assemblage, in Excavations at Reading Business Park Phase 2: A Neolithic ring ditch, a middle Bronze Age field system and a later Bronze Age settlement (A Brossler and R Early) Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Volume 19, 106-110

Boyle, A, 2004e Burial rite and status on the Yarnton middle Saxon settlement, in Yarnton Saxon and Medieval settlement and landscape, (G Hey), Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 20, 75-76

Boyle, A, 2004f General health, in Yarnton Saxon and Medieval settlement and landscape, (G Hey), Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 20, 76

Boyle, A, 2004g The human burials, in Yarnton Saxon and Medieval settlement and landscape, (G Hey), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 20, 317-324

Boyle, A, 2004h Copper alloy objects, in Thornhill Farm, Gloucestershire. An Iron Age and Roman pastoral site in the Upper Thames Valley (D Jennings, J Muir, S Palmer and A Smith), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 23, 78-81

Boyle, A, 2004i Silver object, in Thornhill Farm, Gloucestershire. An Iron Age and Roman pastoral site in the Upper Thames Valley (D Jennings, J Muir, S Palmer and A Smith), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 23, 81

Boyle, A, 2004j Iron objects, in Thornhill Farm, Gloucestershire. An Iron Age and Roman pastoral site in the Upper Thames Valley (D Jennings, J Muir, S Palmer and A Smith), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 23, 81-84

Boyle, A, 2004k Beads, in Thornhill Farm, Gloucestershire. An Iron Age and Roman pastoral site in the Upper Thames Valley (D Jennings, J Muir, S Palmer and A Smith), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 23, 84

Boyle, A, 2004l Shale bracelet, in Thornhill Farm, Gloucestershire. An Iron Age and Roman pastoral site in the Upper Thames Valley (D Jennings, J Muir, S Palmer and A Smith), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 23, 84

Boyle, A, 2004m Human remains, in Thornhill Farm, Gloucestershire. An Iron Age and Roman pastoral site in the Upper Thames Valley (D Jennings, J Muir, S Palmer and A Smith), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 23, 108-109

Boyle, A, 2004n The Ferrybridge chariot, Current Archaeology 191, 481-485

Boyle, A, 2004o Riding into history, British Archaeology 76, 22-27

Boyle, A, 2005a The human skeletal assemblage, in Archaeology of the Jubilee Line Extension. Prehistoric and Roman activity at Stratford Market Depot West Ham, London 1991-1993 (J Hiller and D P Wilkinson), MoLAS, London, 44

Boyle, A, 2005b The human skeletal assemblage, in Segsbury Camp. Excavations in 1996 and 1997 at an Iron Age hillfort on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway (G Lock, C Gosden and P Daly), Oxford University School of Archaeology, Monograph No. 61, http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/research-projects/ridgeway/segsbury

Boyle, A, 2005c The cremated human skeletal remains, in The moon and the bonfire. An investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland (R Bradley), Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 38-42

Boyle, A, 2007 Barrows 7 and 8; Redlands Farm Barrows 7, 8 and 9; The treatment of the body, in The Raunds Area Project. A Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape in Northamptonshire, (J Harding and F Healy) English Heritage Monograph, 169-172, 224-238

http://www-english-heritage.org.uk/research.monographs

Boyle, A, 2008 Cremated human bone, in The excavation of a 1st century field system and associated cremation burials at the Community Hospital, Newbury, West Berkshire, Berkshire Archaeological Journal 77 (2004-2008),17-34

Boyle, A, 2008 Burial terminology: a guide for researchers (Review), Post-medieval Archaeology 42 (2), 426-427

Boyle, A, 2009 Amber beads, in Appleford’s earliest farmers. Archaeological work at Appleford Sidings, Oxfordshire (P Booth and A Simmonds), Oxford Archaeology Occasional Paper No 17, 51

Boyle, A, 2010 Crematieresten van het urnenveld in zone F, in Urnen onder de ploeg (red. A Hakvoort en L van der Meij), ADC ArchaeoProjecten, rapport 1204, Amersfoort, 49-58

Boyle, A, 2011a , Barrow 7; barrow 8; barrow 9; the human remains from Redlands Farm; overview, in The Raunds Area Project. A Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape in Northamptonshire. Volume 2 Supplementary Studies (J Harding and F Healy), English Heritage, 269-284, 717-736

Boyle, A, 2011b The human remains, in Yarnton. Iron Age and Romano-British settlement and landscape (G Hey, P Booth and J Timby), Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 35, Oxford, 469-486

Boyle, A, 2011c The Roman cremation burials, in Carlisle: excavations at Rickergate, 1998-9 and 53-55 Botchergate, 2001 (ed R Newman), Cumbria Archaeological Res Rep No 2, 98-99

Boyle, A, 2013 Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: a medieval murder mystery, Haskins Society Journal 25, 19-33

Boyle, A, 2013 The cremated human bone, Excavations at King’s Low and Queen’s Low. Two early Bronze Age barrows in Tixall, North Staffordshire, Archaeopress, Oxford, 60-62

Boyle, A, 2015 Approaches to post-medieval burial in England: past and present, in The archaeology of death in post-medieval Europe (ed. Sarah Tarlow), 39-62, www.degruyteropen

Boyle, A, 2016 Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: The Discovery and Excavation of an early Medieval mass burial, in The Danes in Wessex. The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, c 800- c 1100. (eds R Lavelle and S Roffey), Oxbow Books, Oxford,109-121

Boyle, A, 2016 Major contribution on human remains, in Yarnton: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement and landscape. Results of excavations 1990-98, (G Hey, C Bell, C Dennis, M Robinson), Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph 39, Oxford Archaeology and Oxford University School of Archaeology, Oxford

Boyle, A, 2016 Bone and cremated bone analysis, in Multi-period activity, the European Marine Science Park, Dunstaffnage, Argyll (C Ellis), Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 60, 14-16, http://doi.org/10.9750/issn.1473-3803.2016.60

Boyle, A, 2017 Analysis of human remains, in Monks, priests and farmers: a community excavation at Baliscate, Isle of Mull, (C Ellis), Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 68, 52-55, http://doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2017.68

Boyle, A, 2017 The medieval cemetery of St Leonard’s hospital, Midland Road, Peterborough. Table of disarticulated bone, York Archaeological Trust, York, https://doi.org/10.5284/1045802

Boyle, A, Boston, C and Witkin, A, 2005 The Archaeological Experience at St Luke’s Church, Old Street, Islington, www.lso.co.uk

Boyle, A, Clough, S, Mahoney, D and Marquez-Grant, N, 2011 Human remains, in Excavations at Tubney Wood Quarry, 2001-9 (A Simmonds, H Anderson-Whymark and A Norton), Oxoniensia 76, 105-172 (71-74) http://oxoniensia.org/oxo_volume.php?vol=76

Boyle, A and Cromarty, A M, 2006 A multi-period settlement at Bradford’s Brook, Cholsey, in Late Bronze Age ritual and habitation on a Thames eyot at Whitecross Farm, Wallingford. The archaeology of the Wallingford bypass 1986-92 (A M Cromarty, A Barclay, G Lambrick and M Robinson), Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 22, 201-224

Boyle, A, Dodd, A, Miles, D and Mudd, A, 1995 Two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries: Berinsfield and Didcot, Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 8, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, Oxford

Boyle, A and Early, R, 1998 Excavations at Springhead Roman `Small Town’, Kent, Oxford Archaeological Unit Occasional Paper No. 1, https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AngelaBoyle

Boyle, A, Evans, T, O’Connor, S, Spence, A and Brennand, M, 2008 Site D (Ferry Fryston) in the Iron Age and Romano-British periods, in The archaeology of the A1(M) Darrington to Dishforth DBFO road scheme (F Brown, C Howard-Davis, M Brennand, A Boyle, T Evans, S O’Connor, A Spence, R Heawood and A Lupton), Lancaster Imprints, Oxford Archaeology North, Oxford, 121-159

Boyle, A, Hacking, P, Allen, T and Ambers, J, 2002 The Anglo-Saxon grave group from Boveney, Gathering the people, settling the land. The archaeology of a middle Thames landscape: Anglo-Saxon to post-medieval, Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 14, Oxford, 28-34

Boyle, A and Henderson, J, 2006 Glass bead, in Late Bronze Age ritual and habitation on a Thames eyot at Whitecross Farm, Wallingford. The archaeology of the Wallingford bypass 1986-92 (A M Cromarty, A Barclay, G Lambrick and M Robinson), Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No 22, 57

Boyle, A and Hiller, J, 2004 Langley Marish, St Mary (Bucks), Church Archaeology 5-6, 117-8

Boyle, A, Jennings, D, Miles, D and Palmer, S, 1998 The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Butler’s Field, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Volume 1: Prehistoric and Roman Activity and Grave Catalogue, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 10, Oxford Archaeological Unit, Oxford

Boyle, A, Jennings, D, Miles, D and Palmer, S, 2011 The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Butler’s Field, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Volume 2: The Anglo-Saxon grave goods, specialist reports, phasing and discussion, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 33, Oxford Archaeology, Oxford

Boyle, A and Keevill, G, 1998 `To the praise of the dead, and anatomie’: the analysis of post-medieval burials at St Nicholas, Sevenoaks, Kent in Grave Concerns: death and burial in England, 1700-1850, CBA Res Rep 113, York, 85-96 https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AngelaBoyle

Boyle, A, Millward, G and McComish, J, 2017 The medieval cemetery of St Leonard’s Leper Hospital, Midland Road, Peterborough, York Archaeological Trust, York, https://doi.org/10.5284/1045802

Bradley, A and Boyle, A, 2004 Moving the dead of Islington, The Archaeologist No. 52, 16-17

Brossler, A and Allen, C, with contributions by A Boyle 2004 Discussion and conclusions, in Green Park (Reading Business Park). Phase 2 excavation 1995. Neolithic and Bronze Age sites, (A Brossler, R Early and C Allen), Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 19, Oxford, 117-132

Brown, F, Howard-Davis, C, Brennand, M, Boyle, A, Evans, T, O’Connor, S, Spence, A, Heawood, R and Lupton, A, 2008 The archaeology of the A1(M) Darrington to Dishforth DBFO road scheme, Lancaster Imprints, Oxford Archaeology North, Oxford

Chambers, R and Boyle, A, 2007 The Romano-British cemetery, in Excavations at Barrow Hills, Radley, Oxfordshire, 1983-5 (R Chambers and E McAdam), Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Monograph No. 25, 13-64

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