Monument record MLI60374 - Anglo-Saxon burial found near Mareham Lane

Summary

Anglo-Saxon burial found near Mareham Lane (unlocated)

Type and Period (1)

  • (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 600 AD to 699 AD)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

PRN 60374 In 1916 a burial with Anglo-Saxon grave goods was found during the widening of Mareham Lane at Old Sleaford. The finds were given to Derby City Museum in 1932 (accession numbers 399/1-3/1932). The finds consist of 1 bronze cruciform brooch of Aberg Group III; a pair of bronze sleeve clasps of the tab-and-slot variety and part of an elaborate gilt-bronze belt plate with zoomorphic decoration. The whole group probably belongs to the last years of the 7th century. It is not known exactly where the find was made and it is therefore unclear whether this burial was wholly isolated or was simply an outlier of the 1881 Old Sleaford cemetery (PRN 61960). (See also PRN 60884, a possible early Anglo Saxon burial but with little information known – these may be the same site, or related?) {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}

Sources/Archives (5)

  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. Sleaford O.S. cards. SLEAFORD. TF 04 SE: 11.
  •  Index: Sleaford SMR cards. SLEAFORD. TF 04 SE: J.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: MEANEY, A.. 1964. A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites. P163.
  •  Article in Serial: A.J. White. 1988. LINCOLNSHIRE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. VOL 23 PP87-8.
  •  Graphic Material: Drawing and photographs of finds from Sleaford in Derby Museum. -.

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Location

Grid reference Not recorded
Civil Parish SLEAFORD, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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