Ancient Anglo Saxon & Iron Age artefacts & human remains found between Rudston & Boynton E Yorkshire

Beverley Guardian ^ | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | unattributed

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Ancient human remains have been unearthed during an archaeological dig at the Caythorpe Gas Storage site between Rudston and Boynton. Five human burials... One set of remains dates to the late Iron Age and had been buried with a simple iron brooch. Another dates back probably to the Anglo-Saxon period and had been buried with an iron knife. Archaeologists have also found evidence of a settlement at the site, including an Iron Age round house and at least one Anglo-Saxon building. Other finds recovered include a Roman brooch, an Anglo-Saxon coin, large fragments of a millstone and numerous fragments of pottery and animal bones... The skeletons have been removed from the site by archaeologists but some of the first people to see other finds were pupils from Boynton Primary School... The children donned hard hats and high visibility vests so they could be taken on a tour of the excavated area on site before taking their seats back in the classroom to look at actual artefacts and photographs of finds.

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original title has 109 characters: "Ancient Anglo Saxon and Iron Age artefacts and human remains found between Rudston and Boynton East Yorkshire"

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[Just mythoughts]

Thanks for finding and posting this.

I sure hope they can do some DNA testing.

[rdl6989]

I wonder if there’s any significance to the skeleton laying on its side?

[BIGLOOK]

The skeletons have been removed from the site by archaeologists but some of the first people to see other finds were pupils from Boynton Primary School... The children donned hard hats and high visibility vests so they could be taken on a tour of the excavated area on site before taking their seats back in the classroom to look at actual artefacts and photographs of finds.

Happy Halloween to you too, SC!

[Tennessee Nana]

Interesting..,

Any pics ???

[SoCalPol]

Hi TN

My Boynton family line is from near this area.
I have traced them back before the early Middle Ages.

[SunkenCiv]

dunno...

Google

[SunkenCiv]

That could be interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe a battlefield death?

Burials in Britain prior to the Romans were either sans coffin or here and there were (by at least one culture) laid in elaborate passage graves, with the bodies dressed in burial clothes (and still no coffin or sarcophagus). Earlier interments (much earlier) in caves were (if memory serves) likely wrapped in cloth shrouds.

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