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XXIV.—On the Discovery of Anglo-Saxon Remains at Desborough, Northamptonshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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I have the honour to bring to your notice some remarkable antiquities which have been discovered in the village of Desborough, Northamptonshire, in February last, while digging iron ore on the property of Mr. and Mrs. Wise, of Woodcote, Warwickshire.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1880

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page 468 note a An account of these with engravings has been published in the Transactions of the Northamptonshire Architectural Society. (Associated Societies' Reports and Papers, xiii. pl. 1, p. 39.)

page 468 note b Roach Smith, Inventorium Sepulchrale, p. 22, pl. xvii.

page 470 note a Proc. S. A. vol. i. p. 12.

Note.—It should be stated that these interesting objects have since been acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum for the Collection of National Antiquities.