Socialization of infants and children in Roman Britain : An analysis of burial customs with special focus on the Lankhills cemetery

This study examines the graves of infants and children in Roman Britain to see if there is any connection between biological age and stages in the socialization process, and burial customs, and if the age categories are represented by certain types of grave furniture. The fourth century Lankhills cemetery in Winchester is a cemetery with a high number of well documented inhumation burials with a wide age span. In this study, the graves have been divided into gropus according to the ages given during the excavation by Giles Clarke and his team. By looking for similarities and differences in the grave furniture while using the theory of socialization one can see the different thresholds of childhood