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Findspot - Migration period pottery

Summary Findspot - fragments of Anglo Saxon pottery, dating to the Migration period, were found during quarrying on Mount Pleasant Hill, south east of Northend.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Migration (410 AD - 800 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Burton Dassett
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 39 52
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 1908. Quarrying on Mount Pleasant led to the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. 2 types of pottery are recorded from the cemetery. Some of the vessels were of a thick reddish brown ware which must have formed pots of considerable size, the others were rather finer and black.
2 The former type appears to be Iron Age. 5 sherds from 1 or 2 original pots are in the Warwick Museum stores. No other information is available from the site.
4 This pottery is Anglo Saxon.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: TBAS vol 50
Author/originator: Westacott E C
Date: 1924
Page Number: 58
Volume/Sheet: 50
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: Accession card
Author/originator:
Date:
Page Number: A3094
Volume/Sheet: Accession Card
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Unpublished document
Author/originator: Booth P
Date: 1991
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: R. Hingley personal comment.
Author/originator: Hingley R
Date: 1988
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Glossary

 
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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 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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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. 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

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