Information for record number MWA3004:
Iron Age or Roman cemetery

Summary A cemetery containing burials of Late Iron Age and Roman date. The site is located south of Stretton on Fosse.
What Is It?  
Type: Cemetery, Burial, Inhumation
Period: Late Iron Age - Romano-British (100 BC - 409 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Stretton on Fosse
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 22 38
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 Series of about twenty burials with late Iron Age pottery, dug 1949; pair of bronze bracelets on wrists of one inhumation. The Iron Age metalwork of greatest interest is the pair of identical bracelets with slightly defined cotton-reel terminals, found around the wrists of a skeleton at Stretton. The burial had legs extended and body pressed forward, head between its knees and face downwards. The left arm was extended backwards and the right arm bent forward at the elbow. British parallels for the bracelets are not easy to find and their Iron Age date has only been inferred from the scatter of Iron Age and Roman potsherds found among the twenty graves.
2 Sandpit, revealed ?AS skeletons. Excavations started by JMM, April 1949.
3 Site 10 in summary of Excavations.
4 Diary notes relating to
2.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: TBAS vol 90
Author/originator: PJG et al
Date: 1982
Page Number: 28-30
Volume/Sheet: 90
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Map
Title: 44NE
Author/originator: JMM
Date:
Page Number: 44NE
Volume/Sheet: Annotated Map
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Note
Title: Stretton on Fosse
Author/originator: Morgan, Paul
Date: 1949
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 86
Author/originator: Thomas N
Date: 1974
Page Number: 32
Volume/Sheet: 86
   
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source TBAS Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society is a journal produced by the society annually. It contains articles about archaeological field work that has taken place in Birmingham and Warwickshire in previous years. Copies of the journal are kept by the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
technique excavation Archaeologists excavate sites so that they can find information and recover archaeological materials before they are destroyed by erosion, construction or changes in land-use.

Depending on how complicated and widespread the archaeological deposits are, excavation can be done by hand or with heavy machinery. Archaeologists may excavate a site in a number of ways; either by open area excavation, by digging a test pit or a trial trench.
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period Iron Age About 800 BC to 43 AD

The Iron Age comes after the Bronze Age and before the Roman period. It is a time when people developed the skills and knowledge to work and use iron, hence the name ‘Iron Age’ which is given to this period. Iron is a much tougher and more durable metal than bronze but it also requires more skill to make objects from it. People continued to use bronze during this period.
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period Roman About 43 AD to 409 AD (the 1st century AD to the 5th century AD)

The Roman period comes after the Iron Age and before the Saxon period.

The Roman period in Britain began in 43 AD when a Roman commander called Aulus Plautius invaded the south coast, near Kent. There were a series of skirmishes with the native Britons, who were defeated. In the months that followed, more Roman troops arrived and slowly moved westwards and northwards.
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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 GRAVE * A place of burial. Use more specific type where known. back
monument CEMETERY * An area of ground, set apart for the burial of the dead. 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

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