Record Details
| NHER Number: | 14472 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Saxon cremation burial site |
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Summary
Documentary sources from the 19th century suggest that cremation urns of the Early to Middle Saxon period have been recovered from an area including the Vicarage garden.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3930 1211 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG31SE |
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| Parish: | UPTON WITH FISHLEY, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
'There must have been a Saxon church on the site of the present one... evidence of burials of that period has been found in the vicarage garden'.
From notes on history of Upton church displayed in building; not printed very long ago.
Vicar explains that notes were taken from a privately printed history of Upton by Rev. P. Oakley Hill in 1891; p.98 - 'the recent discovery of ancient pottery in the vicarage garden, having the appearance of Anglo- Saxon funerary urns (in fragments), suggests the possibility of the site having been an Anglo-Saxon burial ground a thousand years ago'.
Monument Types
- CEMETERY (Early Saxon to Middle Saxon - 410 AD to 850 AD)
Associated Finds
- POT (Early Saxon to Middle Saxon - 411 AD to 850 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
Related records - none
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