Abstract
TO a large number of scattered burials forming an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in a pit at North Luffenham, Rutland, belonging to Mr. A. H. Lewis of Morcot, have now been added the graves of a man and woman, in which the male skeleton presents the unusual but not unknown feature in an Anglo-Saxon burial of the period of being in the crouched position (The Times, July 11). The grave furniture in this burial consisted of a spear, a pottery bowl, and a large bronze bowl, much crushed. All traces of the woman's body had disappeared, but the grave contained a spindle-whorl, a pot, some beads and a glass bottle. The spear is an unusually long specimen of the ‘angular’ type, the blade measuring 10½ inches. A fragment of the shaft is still embedded in the head. The bronze bowl, the most notable object found, belongs to a well-known type of the pagan Anglo-Saxon period. It is a wide elliptical dish, 16½ inches by 12½ inches, with a depth of about 6½ inches. A horizontal projecting flange is about an inch in width, and on it is embossed a continuous series of studs. The foot ring, of 4½ inches diameter, is cast separately. The bowl has been repaired twice near the rim by the addition of small strips of metal riveted over cracks.
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Anglo-Saxon Burials in Rutland. Nature 144, 146 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144146b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144146b0