Monument record MLI51871 - ANGLO SAXON CREMATION CEMETERY

Summary

ANGLO SAXON CREMATION CEMETERY

Type and Period (3)

  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

An Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery discovered whilst digging gravel in 1828. Over twenty urns of various forms containing cremations, were found at irregular intervals in a line along the length of a 'tumulus…thrown up in a rectangular form and covering little more than a rood [a quarter of an acre]' which itself was on a gravel knoll, (described as 'large tumulus 3 to 4 acres in extent'). The findspot not located with any certainty; gravel ridge with former pits is at TF 22639675, TF 22599671, TF 2260 9674 (the largest pit). {1}{4} The gravel pit is just out of the County of Humberside [now North-East Lincolnshire Council, 2000] in Swinhope civil parish but the cemetery may extend beyond the county boundary into Newton parish. {2} A cremation cemetery, with a primary burial in a barrow. Phillips considers this to be an Anglo-Saxon cemetery but the grid reference, TF 242 936, is in Binbrook parish, and is possibly an error. {3}{5}

Sources/Archives (5)

  •  Index: SMR FILE. SWINHOPE. L+M:171,1985, HUMBERSIDE SMR SHEET.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. SWINHOPE. H SMR 465,1985, HUMBERSIDE SMR SHEET.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: MEANEY, A.. 1964. A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites. WOLD NEWTON:P166.
  •  Article in Serial: 1849. ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL. VOL VI, P 184.
  •  Article in Serial: C.W. Phillips. 1934. 'The Present State of Archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part 1' in the Archaeological Journal. VOL XCI, P 139.

Map

Location

Grid reference TF 2263 9675 (point)
Civil Parish SWINHOPE, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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