Monument record FLN 008 - Flixton Park (Sax)

Excavation of a ring ditch of BA origin revealed an Anglo Saxon inhumation grave, orientated E-W, in the southern part. Only a slight trace of bone survived, but in the neck area were two small-long brooches and beside the head there was a crushed glass claw-beaker. This 8-clawed vessel is made of green glass and belongs to Evison's type 3C of the C6 (S1). At a high level in the grave was a plain pottery vessel; a sherd of a decorated urn found 0.5m away from the grave, probably also belongs. Other secondary graves may have existed in the northern part of the ring ditch for metal detecting produced the head of a cruciform brooch of circa 450-500 and a C6 bronze buckle. Two pierced C4 Roman coins found in the SW quadrant may also have come from Anglo Saxon graves (S2).
See also BA, Rom & Med.
Excavation (S3)