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| 1250 of 1764 Document |
| Archive: | Manning | Unique ID: | 1601 | ||||||||
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Sutton Courtenay | Item No.: | 8 | No. of Sheets: | 1 (folded) |
| Title: | Letter from Mr F.M. Stenton of Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, to Mr E.T. Leeds. | ||||
| Content: | Letter begins by Stenton giving Leeds his permission to publish a beaker he found. He then goes on to mention that while he was passing between Drayton and Sutton Courtenay, he saw a man digging gravel and asked him if he had found anything while digging. The man gave him a skeleton which also had some potsherds mixed up with it. As the pieces were very small, Stenton did forgot about them , not having time to put them together again. He only remembered them again when Crawford came to stay with him and mentioned that the pit from which the bones came were very near a Saxon village excavated by Leeds. Stenton writes that he can provide no more information about the find. He then goes on to discuss his excavation in the autumn of a large mound on Loveden Hill near Grantham, where he found a decapitated Saxon skeleton. Written on headed notepaper. | ||||
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