Monument record MLI50022 - Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Riby Park
Summary
Probable Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Riby Park.
Type and Period (3)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
A small beaker-shaped vessel, of rough red ware with one light neckline above continuous random stamping, found in association with an iron knife, fibula and glass and amber beads at Riby Park in 1915. The finds are from what was a small, probably 7th century, cemetery. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}{7}{8}
Soldiers camping in Riby Park in 1915 encountered skeletons and an urn. Further skeletons were found a year later. All the burials were in flint gravel, between 0.46m and 0.60m below the surface. {9}
There are numerous cropmark enclosures in the area. {10}
Sources/Archives (10)
- <1> SLI2344 Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Card Index. TA 10 NE: 1.
- <2> SLI2881 Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TA 10 NE: C.
- <3> SLI323 Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1935. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 2' in the Archaeological Journal. vol.91, p.148.
- <4> SLI321 Article in Serial: MYERS, J.N.L.. 1951. ‘The Anglo-Saxon Pottery of Lincolnshire’ in the Archaeological Journal. vol.108, pp.87-8, 98.
- <5> SLI321 Article in Serial: MYERS, J.N.L.. 1951. ‘The Anglo-Saxon Pottery of Lincolnshire’ in the Archaeological Journal. fig.9.2.
- <6> SLI8 Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. LM 296.15.
- <7> SLI8 Artefact: City and County Museum Collection. LM 383.16.
- <8> SLI82 Article in Monograph: LEAHY, K. A.. 1993. PRE-VIKING LINDSEY. p.41.
- <9> SLI769 Article in Serial: A.J. White (ed.). 1982. 'Archaeology in Lincolnshire, 1981' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. vol.17, pp.81-2.
- <10> SLI3613 Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TA1807: LI.419.2.1-4.
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Location
Grid reference | Centred TA 1863 0790 (587m by 297m) |
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Civil Parish | RIBY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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