Information for record number MWA1709:
Undated Cemetery at Binton

Summary The site of a cemetery of unknown date. The site was located 400m east of Binton.
What Is It?  
Type: Cemetery, Burial, Inhumation
Period: Unknown
Where Is It?  
Parish: Binton
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 14 53
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 ... Binton... occupies a hollow running into the hill and partially detaching a part of it which forms a kind of promontory. At the foot of this promontory, in lowering a garden in 1860 or 1861, several human skeletons were found, some of which I saw taken out. They were all lying E and W, as correctly E and W as the church is placed... on the other side of the village street. All of these were about a foot and a half from the surface, and with one exception were in a flat position on their backs. One only of those I saw was doubled up... there could be no reasonable doubt that this individual had been buried immediately after death...
2 Tomes describes the injuries suffered by this invidual, viz. fractured skull and fractured lower jaw, and says that they obviously occurred whilst the man was alive and they probably caused his death, but states that there is no reason to suppose that he was interred at a different time to the others with which he was associated.
3 Negative observation of trenches for extension.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Observation Report
Title: 5 Church Bank, Binton
Author/originator:
Date: 1982
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 15SW1
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1968
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 15SW1
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: WNHAS
Author/originator: Tomes R
Date: 1866
Page Number: 16-18
Volume/Sheet: 30
   
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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
monument VILLAGE * A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, usually larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a simpler organisation and administration than the latter. back
monument HOLLOW * A hollow, concave formation or place, which has sometimes been dug out. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument INHUMATION * An interment of unburnt, articulated human remains. Use specific type where known. back
monument CHURCH * A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known. back
monument CEMETERY * An area of ground, set apart for the burial of the dead. back
monument TRENCH * An excavation used as a means of concealment, protection or both. 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 GARDEN * An enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit or vegetables and/or recreational purposes. Use more specific type where known. back

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