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V.—An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

John Humphreys ,
J.W. Ryland ,
E.A.B. Barnard ,
F.C. Wellstood  and
Thomas G. Barnett
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In June 1921, during the cutting of a new road in the village of Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, various articles were brought to light indicating an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. The excavation took place on a site at the back of the High Street, on the north side, in a gravel plateau about 100 yds. from the present bank of the river Avon, 150 yds. from the Roman Rycknild Street, and 200 yds. from the old ford, which lies to the east of the church. The site is on the extreme western border of Warwickshire, within a mile of the Worcestershire boundary.

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Archaeologia , Volume 73 , 1923 , pp. 89 - 116
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1923

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References

page 91 note 1 Evesham and Four Shires Notes and Queries, vol. ii, p. 213Google Scholar.

page 91 note 2 The Rev. Taylor, C. S. in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society, 1896-1897, p. 271Google Scholar.

page 96 note 1 Fairford Graves, by William Michael Wylie.

page 96 note 2 The Arts in Early England, iii, 242Google ScholarPubMed.

page 100 note 1 Vol. iv, pl. cxiii, nos. 5 and 6.

page 106 note 1 As a result of the further excavations in 1923, the number of individuals represented by skeletal remains has been greatly increased. Unfortunately, however, the condition of the bones is not nearly so good as in the two previous years, and they are not expected to yield much additional information. It is hoped that a full account of the bones will be published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.