TY - JOUR
T1 - An early Anglo-Saxon cemetery
at Quarrington, near Sleaford,
Lincolnshire : report on
excavations, 2000-2001
AU - Dickinson, T.M.
N1 - Reproduced with the permission of The Society of Lincolnshire History and Archaeology.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - [FIRST PARAGRAPH]
The early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Kesteven part of
Lincolnshire form two distinct distribution patterns (Fig.1): a
north-south line along, or just to the west of, the limestone edge
between the former Roman towns of Lincoln and Ancaster,
of which the best known is an outlier near its southern tip,
the large mixed-rite site at Loveden Hill; and a cluster in
the south-east, of which the best known are Ruskington and
Sleaford, essentially inhumation cemeteries but with a handful
of cremations each (Leahy 1993; 1999). This paper reports on
the excavation of a small inhumation burial site just 2.5km
west-south-west of the Sleaford cemetery and now in the civil
parish of Sleaford, but formerly in the parish of Quarrington
(Fig.2). An Anglo-Saxon burial site has been known from near
here since the early nineteenth century, when urned cremations
and accompanying inhumations were discovered during
gravel digging (Yerburgh 1825; Trollope 1872, pp.98-100;
Meaney 1964, pp.160-61; Lincolnshire Historic Environment
Record, no.60375). Recently, an Anglo-Saxon settlement
of the sixth to eighth centuries has been excavated at Town
Road, Quarrington, 1.1km to the east (Taylor 2003). The
interrelationship of these three Anglo-Saxon sites is a matter
for discussion (below), but it is proposed that the nineteenthcentury
discoveries now be known as Quarrington I and the
new burial area as Quarrington II.
AB - [FIRST PARAGRAPH]
The early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Kesteven part of
Lincolnshire form two distinct distribution patterns (Fig.1): a
north-south line along, or just to the west of, the limestone edge
between the former Roman towns of Lincoln and Ancaster,
of which the best known is an outlier near its southern tip,
the large mixed-rite site at Loveden Hill; and a cluster in
the south-east, of which the best known are Ruskington and
Sleaford, essentially inhumation cemeteries but with a handful
of cremations each (Leahy 1993; 1999). This paper reports on
the excavation of a small inhumation burial site just 2.5km
west-south-west of the Sleaford cemetery and now in the civil
parish of Sleaford, but formerly in the parish of Quarrington
(Fig.2). An Anglo-Saxon burial site has been known from near
here since the early nineteenth century, when urned cremations
and accompanying inhumations were discovered during
gravel digging (Yerburgh 1825; Trollope 1872, pp.98-100;
Meaney 1964, pp.160-61; Lincolnshire Historic Environment
Record, no.60375). Recently, an Anglo-Saxon settlement
of the sixth to eighth centuries has been excavated at Town
Road, Quarrington, 1.1km to the east (Taylor 2003). The
interrelationship of these three Anglo-Saxon sites is a matter
for discussion (below), but it is proposed that the nineteenthcentury
discoveries now be known as Quarrington I and the
new burial area as Quarrington II.
M3 - Article
SN - 0459-4487
VL - 39
SP - 24
EP - 45
JO - Lincolnshire History and Archaeology
JF - Lincolnshire History and Archaeology
ER -