Information for record number MWA2782:
Findspot - Migration or Early Medieval sword

Summary Findspot - an Anglo Saxon sword, dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period, was found in the area east of Churchover.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Anglo-Saxon (410 AD - 1065 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Churchover
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 52 80
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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2 Referring to the mound at Gibbet Hill (PRN 2783), Knowles says that an Anglo Saxon sword found in a wood nearby appears to have been dug up and thrown there when the mound was destroyed. However, he offers no evidence for this and the sword may well have come from the nearby Anglo Saxon cemetery (PRN 2785).
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: RSNHS
Author/originator: Knowles L
Date: 1875
Page Number: 31
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 48NW5
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1960
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 48NW5
   
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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
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument GIBBET * An upright post with projecting arm from which the body of a criminal would be hung in chains after execution. back
monument WELL * A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water. back
monument CEMETERY * An area of ground, set apart for the burial of the dead. back
monument WOOD * A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest. 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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