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  • Anglo-Saxon remains found during Rushton excavation work

    02/08/2014 1:18:31 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 7 replies
    BBC ^ | 17 January 2014 | unattributed
    The remains of four Anglo-Saxon adults have been found in shallow graves during excavation work at a river in Northamptonshire. The graves, 12in (30cm) below ground level, were found during the work to create a new backwater at the River Ise at Rushton near Kettering. A 6th Century bowl was also found in the graves... "The 6th Century date... suggests we're looking at settlers - people who have come here to establish a small farmstead on very good agricultural land," he said. "They would have been subsisting at a small agricultural level." Mr Brown said there were no plans for...