M/1992/1.
This pot is one of several Anglo-Saxon objects found by workmen when they were building Edridge Road in Croydon, between February 1893 and September 1894. Some of the objects were given to the old Grangewood Museum in Croydon and are now…
M/1992/3.
This pot is one of several Anglo-Saxon objects found by workmen when they were building Edridge Road in Croydon between February 1893 and September 1894. Some of the objects were given to the old Grangewood Museum in Croydon and are now…
M/1992/43/1.
This burnt human bone is part of a collection of several Anglo-Saxon objects which were found by workmen when they were building Edridge Road in Croydon, between February 1893 and September 1894. Some of the objects were given to the old…
M/1992/43/2.
This burnt human bone is part of a collection of several Anglo-Saxon objects which were found by workmen when they were building Edridge Road in Croydon, between February 1893 and September 1894. Some of the objects were given to the old…
Mound 2 was excavated by Basil Brown in 1938, the year before his famous discovery of the ship burial in Mound 1. It was re-investigated in the 1980s and 90s by Martin Carver, who concluded it was originally a rich chamber burial covered by a boat…
The Middle Saxon cemetery in the Close of Exeter Cathedral consisted of a mix of burials: some simple inhumations, others ‘charcoal burials’. One of the latter type is shown here: the body of an adult has been laid on a bed of charcoal, which…