Information for record number MWA1185:
Site of Anglo Saxon Burials at Compton Verney

Summary The site of a bank or grave mound where several burials have been uncovered. The burials dated to the Migration period. Jewellery dating to the same period was found with the human remains. The site is located near Compton Verney.
What Is It?  
Type: Burial, Mound, Inhumation
Period: Migration (410 AD - 800 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Compton Verney
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 31 52
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 'Out of a bank near... [Compton Verney]... were dug up, 1774, three skulls, lying in a row, and with them two Saxon jewels set in gold, which were probably once hung round the necks of two of the parties to whom these skulls belonged...'
2 Bracteate of gold, with a milled or cabled border found on the neck of a skeleton at the base of a grave mound at Compton Verney. It is an obvious imitation of a sceatta and the burial can thus not be later that the last quarter of the 7th century. In the same mound was another skeleton with a second gold pendant, which is ornamented with applied gold wire, having in the centre a stone or glass-paste.
3 Drawing of the object.
4 'The Banke' is marked on a drawing of Compton Verney in Dugdale at about the above grid reference. It is known that the lake was being constructed at Compton Verney in 1772 (PRN 1190) and it is possible that the burials were located during levelling associated with the construction of the lake.
8 Both objects are now in the Ashmolean Museum.
9 Details of the items held by the Ashmolean.
10 This area was surveyed from aerial photographs as part of the SE Warwickshire and Cotswolds HLS NMP project. No trace of the former burial mound was visible on either historic or modern aerial photographs.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Camden's Britannia (C R Gough's translation)
Author/originator: Camden W
Date: 1806
Page Number: 450
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Victoria County History, vol 1, Warwickshire
Author/originator: Doubleday H A & Page W (eds)
Date: 1904
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Volume/Sheet: 1
   
Source No: 5
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Archaeologia
Author/originator: Pegge M
Date: 1775
Page Number: 371-5
Volume/Sheet: 3
   
Source No: 6
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Gazetteer of Early Anglo Saxon Burials
Author/originator: Meaney A
Date: 1964
Page Number: 217
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Source No: 8
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Victoria County History, vol 1, Warwickshire
Author/originator: Doubleday H A & Page W (eds)
Date: 1904
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 1
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Drawing
Title: Antiquities of Warwickshire
Author/originator: Dugdale W
Date: 1730
Page Number: 567
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Source No: 7
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 25NE6
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1968
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Source No: 9
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Ashmolean Museum Catalogue
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Source No: 10
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Pers. Comm.
Author/originator: B Gethin
Date: 2013 onwards
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: R.C.Hingley personal comment
Author/originator: Hingley R C
Date: 1989
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source Archaeologia Archaeologia, a journal published by the Society of Antiquaries of London. The journals contain articles relating to the archaeology of Britain and Europe. Recent copies are held at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
source Britannia Britannia, the journal of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies which contains articles about the archaeology of Roman Britain. It is published annually and copies are held at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
technique Aerial Photograph Aerial photographs are taken during an aerial survey, which involves looking at the ground from above. It is usually easier to see cropmarks and earthworks when they are viewed from above. Aerial photographs help archaeologists to record what they see and to identify new sites. There are two kinds of aerial photographs; oblique and vertical. back
period Modern The Modern Period, about 1915 AD to the present (the 20th and 21st centuries AD)

In recent years archaeologists have realised the importance of recording modern sites. They do this so that in the future people will be able to look at the remains to help them understand the events to which they are related.
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period modern About 1915 AD to the present (the 20th and 21st centuries AD)

In recent years archaeologists have realised the importance of recording modern sites. They do this so that in the future people will be able to look at the remains to help them understand the events to which they are related.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument BORDER * A strip of ground forming a fringe to a garden. Use more specific type where known. back
monument LAKE * A large body of water surrounded by land. back
monument INHUMATION * An interment of unburnt, articulated human remains. Use specific type where known. back
monument STONE * Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function. back
monument GRAVE * A place of burial. Use more specific type where known. back
monument MUSEUM * A building, group of buildings or space within a building, where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artefacts are housed and displayed. back
monument BURIAL * An interment of human or animal remains. Use specific type where known. If component use with wider site type. Use FUNERARY SITE for optimum retrieval in searches. back
monument HUMAN REMAINS * The unarticulated remains of the body of a human being. If articulated use inhumation. back
monument ROW * A row of buildings built during different periods, as opposed to a TERRACE. back
monument ROUND * A small, Iron Age/Romano-British enclosed settlement found in South West England. back
monument MOUND * A natural or artificial elevation of earth or stones, such as the earth heaped upon a grave. Use more specific type where known. back

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