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IV.—Excavations in an Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Mitcham, Surrey.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

Harold F. Bidder  and
W.L.H. Duckworth
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It is proposed in this paper to give some account of a burial ground of the early Anglo-Saxon period at Mitcham, at present partially excavated.

The finds of Anglo-Saxon remains in Surrey have so far been few, and the accounts of them meagre. Of those recorded the cemetery opened at Oroydon during some road excavations in 1895 is the most important. It may be noted that Croydon is at the head of a branch of the Wandle, which river flows close to the Mitcham ground. There are some points of resemblance between the finds on these two sites, although the burnt remains discovered at Croydon have no counterpart at Mitcham.

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Archaeologia , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , 1906 , pp. 49 - 68
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1906

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page 49 note a These particulars are taken from Mr. Reginald Smith's account of Anglo-Saxons in Surrey, in the Victoria County History.

page 52 note a Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 2nd S. xxi. 4–10Google Scholar.

page 53 note a A selection of the articles found has been presented to the' parish of Mitcham, and may be seen in the Vestry Hall there.

page 54 note a The direction from head to foot is given in each case. The reference is to true east.

page 55 note a See Proceedings, loc. cit. 6.

page 60 note a The equivalents (in feet and inches) of the shortest and tallest individuals found up to the present at Mitcham are 4 feet 10½ inches and 6 feet respectively. The shortest was a female. The males in Series 1 range from 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 8½ inches.

page 61 note a The numbers are those of the Cambridge Register or Catalogue.

page 63 note a Cf. Smith, Elliott, Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Cambridge, 1904, Section H.Google Scholar

page 65 note a The numbers by which the specimens in this series are indicated are also those of the graves given above.

page 68 note a See footnote on p. 12.

page 68 note b The mean of the values calculated from the several bones by Pearson's formulæ.