Monument record BSE 007 - Hardwick Lane

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Summary

Three male skeletons.

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 8524 6295 (101m by 100m)
Map sheet TL86SE
Civil Parish BURY ST EDMUNDS, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

Map

Type and Period (2)

Full Description

Three male skeletons. Iron split socketed spearhead, tanged knife (6" long), shield boss. Found during building operations - 'Three male skeleton broken up by building trenches lying in graves approximately 2ft deep in gravel. No special orientation and casual hurried interments lying at full length' (S1)(R1)(R2).

Sources/Archives (7)

  • <M1> (No record type): SAU: One box shield boss fragments, marked by SEW as "probably Barons Road"..
  • <S1> Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TL86SE11, 1958.
  • <R1> (No record type): Edwardson A R, letter to Miss A L Savill, November 1958.
  • <R2> (No record type): Meaney, A.. 1964. A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites. Meaney A, Gazeteer of Early AS Burial Sites, 1964, 226.
  • <M2> (No record type): Conservation pre 1974: graphite blackened consistent with.
  • <S2> Digital archive: Historic England. National Record Of the Historic Environment.
  • <M3> (No record type): Moyses Hall 1950-1970.

Finds (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Mar 10 2021 9:52AM

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