This paper considers the relationship between child burials and the way burial parties used them to create connections to the Roman past during Britain's long fifth century, AD 350–550. It examines how both children and adults were buried with late-Roman and early-fifth-century material culture such as bracelets, coins, repurposed Roman curiosities and disc brooches. During the fifth century, though these items were buried with individuals of all ages, the total grave goods assemblage of which they were a part differed for children and adults. Children were usually buried only with Roman material culture, whereas adults were also given items from Anglo-Saxon or other early medieval material cultures. As the chronological distance between a community and the Roman past lengthened, the graves of children – the future of the living community – were used to commemorate or construct connections to the Roman past.

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5 世纪英国的儿童墓葬与罗马历史的联系

本文考虑了儿童葬礼之间的关系，以及葬礼团体在公元 350-550 年英国漫长的公元 5 世纪期间使用它们与罗马历史建立联系的方式。它探讨了儿童和成人如何被罗马晚期和 5 世纪早期的物质文化所掩埋，例如手镯、硬币、重新利用的罗马珍品和圆盘胸针。在 5 世纪，虽然这些物品与各个年龄段的人一起埋葬，但它们所属的墓葬总组合对于儿童和成人来说是不同的。儿童通常只与罗马物质文化一起被埋葬，而成年人也被给予来自盎格鲁-撒克逊或其他早期中世纪物质文化的物品。随着社区和罗马过去之间的时间距离拉长，