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Anglo-Saxon Finds at Warwick

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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In the summer of 1923 several Anglo-Saxon graves were discovered at Emscote, on the right bank of the river Avon, one mile above Warwick, and fifty yards from the south side of the embankment of the Great Western Railway. The remains of five or six interments were found, the bones being very fragmentary and soft. They lay in a thick bed of gravel which has been gradually removed. As soon as Mr. Cleaver, the owner of the gravel-pit, realized that these were ancient interments and the objects probably of some interest, he reported the matter to the Mayor of Warwick (Dr. Hubert Tibbits), who communicated through our Secretary with Mr. John Humphreys, F.S.A., one of the Local Secretaries for Warwickshire. At the latter's request I kept in touch with the excavation work, but by that time all the important objects had been found; since then one more grave has been disturbed, in which only a spear-head was found with the bones. As the gravel-pit on this side is practically exhausted, it seems improbable that any further discoveries will be made in this direction.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1925

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References

page 269 note 1 Proc. Soc. Ant., xxv, 185.

page 269 note 2 Museum, British, Anglo-Saxon Guide, fig. 82 e.Google Scholar

page 269 note 3 Illustrated in Archaeologia, lxii, 482; see also Brown, Baldwin, The Arts in Early England, iv, 424Google Scholar, plate CI.

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