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An Early Iron Age Inhumation-Burial at Egginton, Bedfordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Frederick G. Gurney ,
C. F. C. Hawkes  and
A. J. E. Cave
A. J. E. Cave
Affiliation:
Arnott Demonstrator and Assistant Conservator of the Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England
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The village of Egginton (now officially spelt Eggington to distinguish it from Egginton in Derbyshire) lies some three miles east of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire. By the courtesy of the former owner of the manor, Mr. Harry Sear, and more lately by that of his son, Mr. Gains Sear, I have for some years been able to watch the more or less incidental disclosure of archaeological remains in the excavation of sand on a site near Egginton Manor Farm. This site, where the large Sand Pit is marked on the map, 1 fig. (after 6-in. O.S. Beds. XXVIII SE.), lies upon the top of the Gault hill which rises along the north side of the village. The summit is here just above the 400-ft. contour-line, and the Gault has a thick capping of glacial sand, which dies out westward within about 200 yards, but extends for some distance to the east. This sand consists of redeposited and current-bedded material, derived mainly from the escarpment of the Lower Greensand two miles or so to the north, but of course including many stones and fossils from the Gault of the intervening valley. The bed has been superficially worked from medieval times, no doubt chiefly for building purposes, but it is only of recent years that it has been systematically and deeply dug.

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Research Article
Information
The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1940 , pp. 230 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1940

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References

page 230 note 1 Antiq. Journ. viii, 190.

page 231 note 1 A second Romano-British site may here be recorded, near Charity Farm at the west end of the village (fig. 1).

page 235 note 1 But see p. 237, n. 8 below.

page 235 note 2 Proc. Prehist. Soc. E. Anglia, vi, iv, 371 ff.

page 235 note 3 Antiq. Journ. xiv, 383 ff.

page 235 note 4 Proc. Prehist. Soc. E. Anglia, vii, i, 111 ff.

page 235 note 5 Archaeologia, lxxvii, 179 ff.

page 237 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xiv, 387–8 (Applebaum).

page 237 note 2 Proc. Prehist. Soc. E. Anglia, iv, ii, 216–17, fig. 2, A.

page 237 note 3 Fox, Arch. Camb. Reg. 82, pl. xi.

page 237 note 4 Proc. Prehist. Soc. E. Anglia, iv, ii, 212, pl. I, B, C, and 217; 222, pl. V, A, B, H, J.

page 237 note 5 Arch. Camb. Reg. 94 ff., 96.

page 237 note 6 Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. n.s. xxxviii, 270 ff. (exx. on pls. vii–viii).

page 237 note 7 Ibid, xxxix, 352 ff.

page 237 note 8 Arch. Journ. xcii, 78–91, esp. FT 1, D 13, CP 1, 2, 4 (fig. 7 and pl. xiv); LC 2, 5 (fig. 8); CP 6, 7, 8 (fig. 9). On fig. 10, C 1–5 give a clue to the probable form of the large-sized vessel represented by the unrestorable thick coarse sherds from the grave (pp. 234, 235).

page 237 note 9 Ibid. 95.

page 237 note 10 Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. n.s. xxxix, 187 ff.

page 238 note 1 Arch. Journ. xciii, 89–90, fig. 11, B 1.

page 238 note 2 Ibid. 87–8, fig. 10, C 11.

page 238 note 3 Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. n.s. xxxix, 206, 209, pl. vi, 2.

page 238 note 4 Ibid. 208–9, pl. vi, 1.

page 239 note 1 Cf. pl. vi, 1–3, and pl. VII, 8–9, ibid.