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Site 3 : 'Empingham 1' early Anglo-Saxon settlement and cemetery
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posted on 2014-06-23, 15:20 authored by Peter Liddle, Samantha J. Glaswell, Nicholas J. CooperThis report draws information from an original draft
text written by late director Malcolm Dean following his
excavations of 1966 and 1967, and incorporates the later
findings of the 1969, 1970, and 1971 excavations
directed by M.S. Gorin. The site (code EMP/EPS 1966-
1971) lay on the south side of the River Gwash at SK
9447 0776 over an ironstone outcrop. In about 1960, a
small-long brooch was found on land belonging to Mr
Eric Palmer of Church Farm, Empingham who, in 1966,
brought it to the attention of Miss Christine Mahany
and, on advice from Mr Stanley West, the brooch was
given a sixth century date. Subsequently Mr Malcolm
Dean, who had excavated Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds and Newark, visited Mr
Palmer and found that during the intervening period,
more material had been recovered by excavation from
the same area, including parts of a copper alloy-bound
wooden bucket, fragments of a copper alloy bowl, and
sherds of an Anglo-Saxon pottery vessel. A small trial
excavation by Malcolm Dean followed in late 1966, and
uncovered two pagan Anglo-Saxon inhumation burials
with accompanying grave finds (Phase 3 Burials 1 and
2). The threat posed by further ploughing led the
Ministry of Public Buildings and Works to fund a three week
excavation over Easter 1967 and further work was
carried out in subsequent years. A total area of
approximately 800 sq. metres was exposed and evidence
for prehistoric, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon activity was
recovered. [Introduction]
History
Citation
Cooper, N.J. ' Site 3 : 'Empingham 1' early Anglo-Saxon settlement and cemetery' in Cooper, N.J. ‘The Archaeology of Rutland Water : Excavations at Empingham in the Gwash Valley, Rutland, 1967-73 and 1990’; 2000, pp. 23-45Version
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