Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
Finds from the interesting pagan Saxon cemetery at Ruskington, 3½ miles north of the better-known cemetery at Sleaford, have been published piecemeal and, for the sake of completeness, it seems desirable to place on record certain objects acquired recently by Grantham Museum under the terms of the will of the late Dr. J. H. Gibson of Aldershot. It appears that the latter was in the neighbourhood of Ruskington in 1917 and acquired the objects from a local farmer who had previously obtained them from the gravel-pit north of the village of Ruskington, where burials have been recorded from time to time.
page 181 note 1 The material here dealt with came to the writer's notice while he was at the City and County Museum, Lincoln, and he would like to place on record his great debt of gratitude to the late Mr. E. Thurlow Leeds, F.S.A., and Mr. J. N. L. Myres, F.S.A., who gave generous assistance by reporting on the brooches and pottery respectively; his sincere thanks are due also to Mrs. G. M. Crowfoot for her report on the textile fragment from Laceby and to Professor A. J. E. Cave for his report on the human remains from Stenigot.
page 181 note 2 Antiq. Journ. xxvi (1946), 69Google Scholar, and pl. x; Arch. Journ. ciii (1946), 90Google Scholar, and pl. x; ibid, cviii (1951), 65–99 passim; Leeds, E. T., A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches (1949), p. 67 and no. 107A.Google Scholar
page 181 note 3 Grantham Museum D/N 3217, A.S. 84 (Gibson Bequest); the writer is much indebted to Mr. C. P. Willard, A.L.A., Borough Librarian and Curator, for kindly lending the objects for examination and recording and for providing information about their previous history.
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page 182 note 2 Leeds, E. T., The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements (1913), p. 77.Google Scholar
page 182 note 3 Cf. Leeds, , Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology, pl. v.Google Scholar
page 182 note 4 Oswald, Cf. F., The Commandant's House at Margidunum (University College, Nottingham, 1948), pl. ivGoogle Scholar, 3, and J.R.S. xiii (1923), pl. x, 1–3.Google Scholar
page 182 note 5 Cf. Hawkes, and Hull, , Camulodunum, pp. 262, 263, discussing Form 229.Google Scholar
page 184 note 1 Leeds, E. T., A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches, 1949, no. 53.Google Scholar
page 184 note 2 Arch. Journ. cviii, 89, and fig. 10, 1.
page 184 note 3 Ibid. xci, 154, 172.
page 184 note 4 Archaeologia, 1, pl. xxv, fig. 2.
page 184 note 5 Cf. P.P.S. xix, fig. 12,25.
page 185 note 1 Arch. Journ. cviii, 88, and fig. 9, 2.
page 186 note 1 Although, as Mr. Leeds pointed out in a later letter, the six brooches in his group V c include one from Exning, Suffolk (Fox, Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, pi. xxix, 2) which, if the neatness of the grouping of the others (Sleaford—3, Market Overton—1, Laceby—1) is not to be spoilt, must be ascribed to a cause such as marriage.
page 187 note 1 In a letter to the writer, after seeing drawings of the pottery.
page 187 note 2 Arch. Journ. cviii, 86–90.
page 189 note 1 Cf. Arch. Journ. xci, 170–1; for the Mesolithic finds in particular cf. J. G. D. Clark, The Mesolithic Age in Britain.
page 190 note 1 L.M. 13–15.54 (presented by Mr. Taylor).
page 190 note 2 Arch. Journ. cviii, 25.
page 190 note 3 Information from Messrs. F. T. Baker, F.S.A., and G. Webster, F.S.A.
page 190 note 4 Arch. Journ. cviii, 34, fig. 5.
page 190 note 5 Lethbridge, T. C., A Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk (C.A.S. 4t0 Pubns., n.s. vi), fig. 27, 49, 20.Google Scholar
page 192 note 1 Arch. Journ. cviii, 74, and fig. 2, 4.
page 192 note 2 He assigns it to a group of beaker-like vessels with slightly everted rims and profuse stamping which belong to the later part of the pagan period (cf. Arch. Journ. cviii, 86, figs. 9 and 10).
page 192 note 3 Ibid. 62 and 70–72.
page 192 note 4 There is always the possibility to be borne in mind that its position at the southern end of the isolated Wolds may mean that its closest links are across the Wash with the communities of East Anglia.
page 193 note 1 Cf. Brown, Baldwin, The Arts in Early England (1915), IV, p. 230, and pl. XXVIII, 6.Google Scholar
page 193 note 2 Antiq. Journ. XI, 4, and fig. 2.
page 193 note 3 C.A.S. 4to Pubns., n.s., v, fig. 7, 1.
page 194 note 1 By the late Mr. E. T. Leeds, to whom the writer is indebted for helpful comments on the material as a whole.
page 194 note 2 As pointed out by Mr. N. C. Cook, F.S.A., who kindly compared the blades under discussion with razors in the Guildhall Museum.
page 194 note 3 Analogous to that from a well at Pagan's Hill, Chew Stoke, Somerset, dated seventh-eighth century (a reference kindly supplied by Mr. G. C. Dunning, F.S.A.).
page 194 note 4 Aspects of Archaeology, 1951, p. 182 (C. F. C. Hawkes, Bronze-Workers, Cauldrons and Bucket-Animals in Iron Age and Roman Britain).
page 194 note 5 Ibid. Cf. also Universitets Oldsaksamlings Skrifter. I: Listas Jernalder, figs. 40 and 42 (reference supplied by the late Mr. E. T. Leeds).
page 194 note 6 Cf. the cauldron with imperforate lugs from Martigny, Canton du Valais, now in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire at Geneva (Ganava, XI, 1933, p. 64, pl. v, 3 and fig. 4, 8). The writer is indebted to Dr. Edmond Sollberger, Keeper of Archaeology at Geneva, for the publication reference and for confirming the absence of perforations, which suggests that the article may still have been on a trade-route.Google Scholar
page 194 note 7 Hawkes, , op. cit., pp. 177 and 189.Google Scholar
page 195 note 1 Ibid., fig. 46c.
page 196 note 1 Hawkes, , op. cit., fig. 47c.Google Scholar
page 196 note 2 For this and the subsequent sites, reference should be made to the appendix at the end of this paper.
page 197 note 1 For a similar method of riveting cf. the cauldron in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, found in a late second-century deposit in the excavation of the Deanery Field barrack-blocks (A.A.A. xviii, 3–4, 142, fig. 8 d) and the secondary repairs on the Romano-British cauldron from Carlingwark Loch, Kirkcudbrightshire (P.S.A.S. lxxxvii, 28, and fig. 7).
page 197 note 2 Information kindly supplied by Mr. S. E. West.
page 198 note 1 Information kindly supplied by Mr. S. E. West.