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| 1737 of 1764 Document |
| Archive: | Manning | Unique ID: | 1437 | ||||||||
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Yarnton | Item No.: | 16 | No. of Sheets: | 8 |
| Title: | Manuscript extract from publication: 'Rolleston's Scientific Papers and Addresses, 1884, Volume II, pp.942 - 944.' | ||||
| Content: | Concerning the discovery of human skeletons at the ancient cemetery at Yarnton between 1875 to 1877, while the area was being excavated for gravel in connection with the railway works going on in the district. The extract discusses the ditches, graves in the ditches, the contents of the ditches, the size of the graves, the direction of the skeletons in the graves, the position of the bones and the sexes of the skeletons. Also mentioned are the Bronze Age and Anglo Saxon finds made at the site, many of which are in the Ashmolean Museum (Bronze Age: Broken urn (1886.1453); Bone pin (1886.1687); Drinking cup (1886.1454); Flint (1886.1454); Anglo Saxon: Iron knife, dagger, umbo and spear (1886.1444); Iron knife (1886.1709); Strips of bronze (1886.1449)) | ||||
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