NHER 17403 (Monument record) - Undated burial, Early Saxon metalwork and multi-period pottery sherds

7 April 1981. Location [1].
Human skeleton with head at west. A gault hole (subsidence over a cavity formed by the localised solution of the chalk bedrock) exposed a skeleton at a depth of 40cm. Most of the skeleton had sunk into the cavity but the legs remained in situ. The farmer had removed the right femur. Beneath the skeleton were two dressed stone blocks. These appeared to have been dumped into a small pit which also contained the femur of a dog? No dateable material was found and the site was not excavated.
Right femur held by NCM.
A. Lawson (NAU) 26 June 1981.

1989. Around findspot of skeleton in 1981.
Early Saxon wristclasp (small find 1) Hines B19. Tinned or silvered. Foot of cruciform brooch, punched dots, integral catchplate. Group I (small find 2). Foot of cruciform brooch, group III, distorted, burnt? (small find 3).
In general area, scatter of sherds:
Seventy Roman grey, one Roman shelly, seven Samian including one decorated.
One medieval unglazed.
One sherd thick dark grey coarse sandy Iron Age or Early Saxon.
See plot in file.
A. Rogerson 11 August 1989.

Winter 1989-90. Found with metal detector. See plan in file. Small finds listed below
(4) Knob from cruciform brooch, concave underside, iron pin detachable, Early Saxon.
(5) Wrist clasp eye plate, Hines B12, broken at one attachment hole, Early Saxon
(6) Molten and distorted foot fragment of Group IV cruciform brooch. Early Saxon
(7) Two molten lumps, incl one probable knob from cruciform brooch, Early Saxon
(8) One molten lump, and molten?? brooch fragment.
(9) Post medieval
(10) Burnt frag of now of Early Saxon long brooch, and large molten lump of ???brooch.
All (except 9) to be photographed.
A. Rogerson (NAU) 10 September 1990.

1994-96. Metal detecting.
Four Roman coins
Roman and Early Saxon brooches.
Details in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 1 June 1999.