SNN111355 - The Pioneer Burial: A High-Status Anglian Warrior Burial from Wollaston, Northamptonshire

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Type Monograph
Title The Pioneer Burial: A High-Status Anglian Warrior Burial from Wollaston, Northamptonshire
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2019
SMR Input Date (use for label searches) 23/01/2019

Abstract/Summary

MOLA undertook evaluation and subsequent excavation at Wollaston Quarry, near Wellingborough through the 1990s. These excavations took place in advance of gravel extraction on land to the north and south of Hardwater Road, Wollaston. The archaeological work found Iron Age and Roman farms arranged along a single routeway and the remains of at least two Roman vineyards. A single late 7th century grave, the Pioneer burial, lay alongside a long-lived routeway at the southern end of the quarry, close to the floodplain and any burial mound would have overlooked the River Nene. The burial was an isolated feature; the only other Saxon artefacts recovered from other parts of the quarry were limited to two scatters of pottery and two fragments of small long brooch reovered by metal detection. All were located some distance from the grave.

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Description

Archaeopress Archaeology publication

Location

NCC Archives Service, Heritage Team HER Library

Referenced Monuments (1)

  • Isolated C7th Burial With Grave Goods (The Pioneer Burial) (Monument)

Referenced Events (2)

  • Wollaston Pioneer, 1997 (Metal Detecting) (Ref: 9063025)
  • Wollaston Quarry, 1993-1998 (Excavation) (Ref: Awaiting report)

Record last edited

Mar 28 2019 1:58PM

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