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An Anglian Cemetery at Glaston, Rutland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

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The sand-pit at Glaston, Rutland, from which came the example of a rare type of Celto-Saxon fibula recorded in the Antiquaries Journal, xxviii, 169 ff., has since yielded evidence of a small cemetery. By way of preface it may be noted that the settlement which the cemetery represents is situated at a point close to the junction of the Oolitic Northampton Sands with the Lias, an observation stressed by Reginald A. Smith in his article on Anglo-Saxon remains in volume i of the Victoria History of Northamptonshire in regard to Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the country. It is also applicable to the other known cemeteries in Rutland itself, the selection being determined by accessibility to an adequate water-supply. Reference to the geological map in the V.C.H., Rutland, i, shows that the choice at Glaston follows the general rule on an outlier that thrusts into the Lias as far as Uppingham from the north-south Oolitic band that covers the eastern half of the county.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1950

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References

page 186 note 1 Leeds, E. T., A Corpus of Early Anglo-Great Square-headed Brooches, pp. 1620Google Scholar, nos. 11–33.

page 186 note 2 For classification of ‘small-long’ brooches see Archaeologia, xci, 1 ff.

page 187 note 1 Archaeologia, xci, 96.

page 187 note 2 Ibid., xci, 100.

page 188 note 1 See Leeds, , op. cit., p. 18, no. 11Google Scholar.

page 188 note 2 Ibid., p. 91, where Londesborough (35)should be Londesborough (59).

page 188 note 3 Ibid., Group B 3, nos. 13 ff.

page 188 note 4 Antiq. Journ., xxiv, 120.

page 189 note 1 Brown, G. Baldwin, The Arts in Early England, see references under ‘Ornament, conventional, swastika’, especially p. 495Google Scholar.