An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Nassington, Northants.

E. T. Leeds; R. J. C. Atkinson

doi:10.1017/S0003581500016577

An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Nassington, Northants.

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E. T. Leeds and

R. J. C. Atkinson

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In the past, although many discoveries of early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries have been made in Northamptonshire, no detailed record exists of any series of burials larger than the thirty-seven graves explored by Sir Henry Dryden at Marston St. Lawrence at the southwestern end of the county. The following report of the cemetery at Nassington therefore constitutes a most important addition to our knowledge of the archaeology of the period.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 3-4 , October 1944 , pp. 100 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500016577 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1944

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^{page 100 note 1} Archaeologia, xlviii, 327 ff.

^{page 100 note 2} The list of unassociated objects in the possession of Mr. Abbott, Mr. Preston, and Oundle School taken together is a long one, and apart from those which can definitely be assigned to graves included in Mr. Abbott's schedule, there is a sufficient residue to make an appreciable addition to the ascertained number of graves the details of which are known. For instance I have noted in the Oundle series alone parts of eight sets of sleeve-clasps; Mr. Abbott's list has two more. Again his list provides evidence of five more spears.

^{page 104 note 1} The objects definitely associated with graves are numbered in the plates to correspond with the register of graves in the text. Other objects marked M, O, or P are miscellanea not identified with any particular grave, and are in the possession of Mr. Abbott, Oundle School, and Mr. Preston respectively. Where two or more objects belonging to the same grave or to one of the three miscellaneous groups occur on the same plate, they are distinguished by the additional letters a, b, c, etc.

^{page 104 note 2} The classification employed in this paper for ‘small-long’ brooches and sleeve-clasps accords with that which I have adopted in a paper entitled ‘The Distribution of the Angles and Saxons Archaeologically Considered’, which is to be published in Archaeologia, vol. XCI, its appearance in vol. LXXXIX having been unfortunately shelved owing to the exigencies of paper control.

^{page 106 note 1} Marked 19 in error.

^{page 111 note 1} Several graves in this area were looted and any finds are now dispersed.

^{page 115 note 1} E. T. Leeds, Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology, pl. xx, c; Archaeologia, lxiii, pl. XXVII, 7.

^{page 116 note 1} V.C.H. Beds. I, coloured plate opposite p. 130, fig. 13.

^{page 116 note 2} Hon. R. Neville, Saxon Obsequies, pl. 2.

^{page 116 note 3} Leeds, op. cit., p. 89; Antiq. Journ. xv, 110.

^{page 116 note 4} Durobrivae, pl. LV, 6.

^{page 116 note 5} V.C.H. Notts. i, 203, fig. facing 202.

^{page 117 note 1} Leeds, op. cit. 85.

^{page 117 note 2} The Anglo-Saxons in England, 70–1.

^{page 117 note 3} British Museum.

^{page 117 note 4} Leeds, op. cit. 48, 83.

^{page 117 note 5} Neville, op. cit., pls. 2 and 6.

^{page 117 note 6} Leeds, op. cit. 84, pl. xxv, a.

^{page 117 note 7} C. Fox, The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, pl. xxx, i.

^{page 117 note 8} Proc. Soc. Ant. 2 S., xxii, fig. facing p. 51.

^{page 117 note 9} Leeds, op. cit. 87, fig. 18.

^{page 117 note 10} V.C.H. Oxon. i, 359, pl. xxv, c.

^{page 118 note 1} Antiq. Journ. xliv, pl. xxxiii, a–b.

^{page 118 note 2} Archaeologia, 1, pl. xxxii, fig. 1; Neville, op. cit., pl. 2.

^{page 118 note 3} Durobrivae, pl. LV, figs. 2 and 8.

^{page 118 note 4} Op. cit., Tab. I, group IV, no. 171.

^{page 119 note 1} Archaeologia, xlviii, pl. xxiv, from grave 14.

^{page 119 note 2} Journ. Northants. Nat. Hist. Soc. & Field Club, xi, 4, pl. II; V.C.H. Northants. i, 243, fig. 6.

^{page 119 note 3} Northampton Museum and Cambridge (University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology).

^{page 119 note 4} J. Y. Akerman, Remains of Pagan Saxondom, pl. xxxiv, 3.

^{page 120 note 1} V.C.H. Hunts. i, 274, fig. 5.

^{page 120 note 2} Neville, Saxon Obsequies.

^{page 120 note 3} Op. cit. 3–4.

^{page 121 note 1} E.g. O. Almgren, Nordeuropäische Fibelformen der ersten nachchristlichen Jahrhunderte.

^{page 122 note 1} Antiquity, vi, 181 ff.

^{page 122 note 2} Oxoniensia, vii, 70.

^{page 123 note 1} These pendants serve to explain some imperfect bone objects found in grave 15 at Wallingford, Berks. (Berks. Arch. Journ. xlii, 98, pl. iv). When complete they must have been of much the same length, but were square in section instead of round; they, too, were decorated with engraved bull's-eye circles, and on close examination remains can be detected of perforations at the pointed end and also traces of rust left by the decay of an iron ring. Their position in the grave could for reasons given not be determined.

^{page 124 note 1} C. Roach Smith, Inventorium Sepulchrale, p. 68 with fig.

^{page 124 note 2} Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxvi, 240, fig. 3.

^{page 124 note 3} Bulleid and Gray, Glastonbury Lake Village, pl. XLIV, E. 262.

^{page 124 note 4} Antiq. Journ. iii, 143 with fig.

^{page 124 note 5} Arch. Cambr. 1905, pp. 137–8, fig. 18.

^{page 124 note 6} Ibid., fig. 17.

^{page 124 note 7} Archaeologia, lxv, 226; see also H. E. Kilbride-Jones in Proc. R. Irish Acad. xiii, Sect. C, no. 13.

^{page 124 note 8} Arch. Cantiana, x, 303.

^{page 125 note 1} Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology, p. 3.

^{page 125 note 2} A. Plettke, Die Urnenfriedhöfe in Niedersachsen, pl. 37, 6 (Westerwanna, Hanover) and pl. 44, 4 (Hammoor, Schleswig-Holstein).

^{page 125 note 3} Antiq. Journ. xvii, pl. xcii a, lower left.

^{page 125 note 4} The Hon. R. C. Neville, Saxon Obsequies, pl. 24, bottom right and left, and pl. 25, no. 6.

^{page 127 note 1} E. T. Leeds, op. cit., figs. 16–20 and Archaeologia, xc (in the press).

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