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XXII.—On excavations in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sleaford, in Lincolnshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

George William Thomas
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In the latter part of November in the past year I heard that in the course of operations consequent upon the widening of a portion of the Grantham, Sleaford, and Boston Railway, there had been several discoveries of human remains, accompanied by beads, fibulae, pottery, and spears. I was therefore led to ask permission to make a systematic exploration of the locality. Through the kind favour of the Marquis of Bristol, the owner of the property, of his kinsman and representative, R. H. Hervey, Esq., and by the courtesy of the tenant, J. H. Marston, Esq., I was enabled to carry out what I believe to be an exhaustive examination.

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Archaeologia , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , 1887 , pp. 383 - 406
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1887

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page 386 note a Two ivory rings were found by Mr. Akerman in graves of women in the cemetery at Bright-hampton, Oxon. and seem to have been 5 inches in diameter. See Archaeologia, XXXVIII. pp. 86, 89Google Scholar. They do not appear to have been accompanied by girdle-hangers, but in one were a number of silver coins, and the silver mounting of a purse. Mr. Akerman suggests that these ivory rings “appear to have formed the framework of a kind of bag, probably for holding sewing materials and implements of housewifery.” Ibid. p. 92. See also , Wylie, Fairford Graves, p. 15Google Scholar.

page 388 note a Males 51; Females 86; Children 18; Uncertain 92.

page 389 note a This spade-shaped fibula is similar to one found near Rugby, engraved in Akerman, Pagan Saxondom, Pl. XVIII. fig. 7; but has four small holes in the square part.

page 394 note a One of the same pattern from Islip, Oxfordshire, is engraved in Proceedings, 2d S. ix. 90Google Scholar.

page 394 note b A rich pin of the same general form, but jewelled, from Wingham, Kent, is engraved in Akerman, Pagan Saxondom, Pl. XL. fig. 3.