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IX. An Account of the Discovery of Anglo-Saxon Remains at Kemble, in North Wilts; with Observations on a Grant of Land at Ewelme to the Abbey of Malmesbury by King Æthelstan, in the year 931

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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In the month of July last, while engaged in some antiquarian inquiries on the borders of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, I accidentally heard of the discovery of sepulchral remains in the village of Kemble. Convinced from the account I then received, that these relics were of the Anglo-Saxon period, I lost no time in proceeding to Kemble, where I obtained abundant proof of the discovery, and a sufficient description of the objects discovered, to satisfy me that my conjectures were well founded.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1857

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page 114 note a This conjecture seems in some measure supported by the fact that the coins of Allectus, the murderer and successor of Carausius, though equally common, are not found so frequently in Anglo-Saxon graves. Mr. Wylie mentions the finding of a small brass coin of Allectus at Fairford, but it was not pierced for suspension.

page 115 note a MS. Lansd. printed in the Codex Diplom. Ævi Saxonici, vol. ii. p. 179. The land-limits are given in vol. iii. p. 408.

page 117 note a Vita St. Ludgeri, lib. I. apud Script. Brunswic. ed. Leibnit. torn. I. ed. Hanov. 1710; et Acta Sanctorum, torn. III. c. x. p. 566.

page 117 note b Arts et Metiers des Anciens, planche lxxiv.

page 117 note c “Yfre” occurs in another charter of Æthelstan, No. CCCLIII. Codex Dipl. Ævi Saxon, vol. ii. p. 172.

page 118 note a Itinerary, vol. ii. p. 24, ed. 1744.

page 118 note b In a cartulary of Malmesbury Abbey in the British Museum (Add. MSS. No. 15, 667), we find “stone, ” but this affords no better clue to the real meaning.

page 118 note c Robert Fitzpayn was summoned to Parliament 14th Ed-w. III.

page 119 note a It is so called in Andrews' and Drury's Map, but is not mentioned in the Ordnance Survey.

page 119 note b In the “Valor Ecclesiasticus, ” vol. ii. p. 122, Leonard White is mentioned as Bailiff and Keeper of the Woods of Bremill and Kemell.

page 120 note a Sic.

page 120 note b Sic, pro omnes.