Information for record number MWA5342:
Find of Saxon period burials

Summary The possible site of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery dating to the Migration period. Four burials and grave goods, including a sword and a brooch, have been found at the site. It is located 1km north east of Churchover.
What Is It?  
Type: Cemetery, Burial, Inhumation
Period: Migration (410 AD - 800 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Churchover
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 52 81
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 Skeletons (no other finds visible) when County Museum excavated bones from under tarmac of street during roadworks here. When constructing lay-by in 1958 further Anglo Saxon finds were also made by workmen. Finds all from opposite side of road to the lay-by.
2 At Gallow Hill a contractor who was improving Watling Street came upon some burials and the Museum was called out. No grave goods were found. Some time later Tamworth Museum passed on a skull, part of a sword, and two bronze objects which had been found originally by one of the contractors. Recently some earrings, which apparently came from the same skull, were handed in at Coventry Museum.
3 1958: Parts of three skeletons were found and thought to be Anglo Saxon. Later a fourth skeleton was found W of the road where a lay-by was being constructed; it was accompanied by an iron sword, a bronze ring and an Anglo Saxon annular brooch.
4 Letter from 1958.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: E A S Burial Sites
Author/originator: Meaney A
Date: 1964
Page Number: 259
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Poss Anglo Saxon cemetery, Churchover
Author/originator: JMM
Date: 1960
Page Number:
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Watling Street inhumation
Author/originator: Daniel, John
Date: 1958
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 44NE
Author/originator: JMM
Date:
Page Number: 44NE
Volume/Sheet: Annotated Map
   
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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 ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. 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 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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