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Three staffs made from apple wood, placed beside the body.
The identification of these as apple wood, requiring analysis of the material, and their identification as a Scandinavian burial tradition is the detail that most complicates the simple picture of a Norman-era burial.
In medieval Scandinavian contexts, staffs or poles placed with the dead have been interpreted in various ways: as symbols of status, as implements associated with specific roles, as part of ritual practices associated with Norse cultural traditions.
The placement of three apple wood staffs in this particular burial, in a Norman knight’s church on the Humber, is a specific and unusual combination.
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