Monument record 6190/0/1 - Single Early Saxon Inhumation With Grave Goods

An Anglo Saxon skeleton with scramasax, spearhead and knife, was found at Clipston. Now in Northants Museum.

{1} Find of an early Saxon inhumation with grave goods including a scramasax, knife and spearhead of Swanton type C2. Perhaps from the south east part of the village, SP714815.

{4} An Anglo Saxon skeleton with scramasax, spearhead and knife, was found at Clipston. Now in Northants Museum (shown on map at SP 720823)

{9} '...and Desborough must therefore be classed with Brixworth, Holdenby, Clipston and Northampton as exhibiting traces of both methods of burial in vogue among the Teutonic invaders..." (but this is all that VCH says about AS burials at Clipston)

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.49/Site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP78SW2 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<3> Meaney A.L., 1964, Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites, p.188 (unchecked) (Gazetteer). SNN10289.

<4> George T.J., 1904, An Archaeological Survey of Northamptonshire, p.12 (unchecked) (Index). SNN10170.

<5> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.237 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100368.

<6> Swanton M.J., Spearheads of the Anglo Saxon Settlements, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN55500.

<7> 1974, British Archaeological Reports (BAR 7), p.42 (unchecked) (Series). SNN11393.

<8> 1969, Journal of The Northampton Museum and Art Gallery (6), 6/49 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN9670.

<9> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, P. 237 (Series). SNN100368.

<10> Baird, J, 1969, Field Investigators Comments, 10/Feb (Note). SNN111452.

<11> Geake, H, 1997, Use of grave goods in conversion period England, c. 600 - c. 850, page 171 (Monograph). SNN114719.

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