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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Meadows, Ian (1959-....)
Titre(s) : The Pioneer burial [Texte imprimé] : a high-status Anglian warrior burial from Wollaston, Northamptonshire / Ian Meadows ; with contributions by Rob Atkins, Alison Draper, J N James... [et al.] ; illustrations by Olly Dindol, Jacqueline Harding and James Ladocha
Publication : Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, copyright cop. 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-70 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm
Collection : Archaeopress archaeology
Lien à la collection : Archaeopress archaeology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-69)
MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) undertook evaluation and subsequent excavation
at Wollaston Quarry, near Wellingborough through the 1990s. These excavations took
place in advance of gravel extraction on land to the north and south of Hardwater
Road, Wollaston. The archaeological work found Iron Age and Roman farms arranged along
a single routeway and the remains of at least two Roman vineyards. 0A single late
7th century grave, the 'Pioneer burial', lay alongside a long-lived routeway at the
southern end of the quarry, close to the floodplain and any burial mound would have
overlooked the River Nene. The burial was an isolated feature; the only other Saxon
artefacts recovered from other parts of the quarry were limited to two scatters of
pottery and two fragments of small long brooch recovered by metal detection. All were
located some distance from the grave. 0The Pioneer burial was adjacent to the south-western
corner of the later Saxon Higham Hundred boundary where it meets the River Nene. It
is probable the burial had originally been within a barrow, but no evidence was found
for it. Within the grave there was an individual adult of slender build probably in
their early to middle 20s equipped with a boar-crested iron helmet, a pattern-welded
sword, a copper alloy hanging bowl with enamelled escutcheon, an iron knife, a copper
alloy clothing hook and three iron buckles. The burial contained artefacts indicative
of very high status, with the early to middle Saxon helmet being at the time only
the fourth to have been recovered from a burial in England
Sujet(s) : Fouilles archéologiques -- Wollaston (Northamptonshire, GB)
Tombes -- Wollaston (Northamptonshire, GB) -- Moyen âge
Casques -- Wollaston (Northamptonshire, GB) -- Moyen âge
Antiquités anglo-saxonnes (peuple germanique) -- Wollaston (Northamptonshire, GB)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1789691192. - ISBN 9781789691191 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45711915b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45711915
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