Information for record number MWA5375:
Site of Anglo Saxon Cemetery 400m S of Priory Farm

Summary Various finds from this area, including brooches and pottery, suggest that this might be the site of an Anglo Saxon cemetery dating to the Migration or Early Medieval periods. The site lies 500m south of Princethorpe.
What Is It?  
Type: Cemetery
Period: Anglo-Saxon (410 AD - 1065 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Princethorpe
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 39 70
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1 Bloxam records Roman (PRN 3106) and Anglo Saxon finds from Princethorpe. The Anglo Saxon finds include a large bronze brooch and an iron chisel.
3 A number of these finds are now in Warwick Museum.
5 c1848: A bronze cruciform brooch, an iron spearhead with a split socket, an iron 'chisel', and a nail, were found with a fragment of ?Romano British pottery at 'the site of a Roman station'. c1876: A square-headed brooch was found at the same place. Burgess says that Anglo Saxon urns were also found. In Warwick Museum labelled as from Princethorpe is a fine horse-headed bronze cruciform brooch, and an iron ?punch.
6 Correspondance in FI File 3106 talks about a "chape from the Bloxham Collection". Leslie Webster, in a letter to Dr Ian Stead, confirms the identification of the chape as Anglo-Saxon, on grounds of both form and decoration. She suggests it is a 6th century piece. She concludes "There is a perfectly respectable 6th century Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Princethorpe, from which it presumably derives." Letter also attached from Dr Graham Webster to HMM.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: RSNHS
Author/originator: Bloxam M H
Date: 1884
Page Number: 6
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Secondary Record Card: Princethorpe Roman Town
Author/originator: Warwickshire Museum
Date: undated
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Source No: 5
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: E A S Burial Gazetteer
Author/originator: Meaney A
Date: 1964
Page Number: 262
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Source No: 4
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: 6
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Letter concerning Anglo-Saxon chape from Bloxam collection
Author/originator: L Webster
Date: 1986
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 6
Author/originator: Bloxam M H
Date: 1875
Page Number: 25-38
Volume/Sheet: 6
   
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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
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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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 SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument URN * A garden ornament, usually of stone or metal, designed in the the form of a vase used to receive the ashes of the dead. 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 SQUARE * An open space or area, usually square in plan, in a town or city, enclosed by residential and/or commercial buildings, frequently containing a garden or laid out with trees. 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 TOWN * An assemblage of public and private buildings, larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government. back

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