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Archive: Manning Unique ID: 167
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Cassington Item No.: 6 No. of Sheets: 1
Title: Press cutting from the Oxford Times, 7 November 1930.
Content: Brief article entitled : 'Saxon bones unearthed. Cassington man's interesting discovery.' Report of the discovery of three skeletons and two daggers by Mr Albert F. Lay of Alma Villa, Cassington, in his garden. The bones were removed to the the School of Anthropology at the Oxford University Museum, where they were examined by Mr L.H.D. Buxton. Thought to be Anglo Saxon by him. The daggers were sent to the Ashmolean Museum.
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