Record Details
| NHER Number: | 165 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Early Saxon cemetery, Eade Road (Aylsham Road) |
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Summary
An Early Saxon cremation and inhumation cemetery was found during road-building works in the late 19th century. Finds included urns, a 5th century bowl, a brooch and tweezers. An attempt in 1974 to define the western limits of the cemetery was unsuccessful due to wholesale disturbance by 19th century gravel extraction.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 227 099 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1898.
Cremation and inhumation cemetery found in making this road but little material preserved. 5th to 6th century.
1898.
Early type (5th century) bowl. Several others found but this was the only whole one. Gilt and silvered square headed bronze brooch and bronze tweezers.
'Found with Anglo-Saxon urns whilst making the new Eade Road at Catton April 1898'.
1974.
Attempt to define west limits of cemetery by excavation at 52 Aylsham Road (NHER 177) unsuccessful due to wholesale disturbance of site by 19th century gravel quarrying; no traces found.
For further details see file.
Monument Types
- CEMETERY (Unknown date)
- CEMETERY (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
- INHUMATION (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- POT (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- TWEEZERS (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 NW 91 [3]. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Norwich - Post Roman. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S2> | Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 334. |
| <S3> | Publication: Leeds, E. T. 1949. Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Pottery. p 52. |
Related records
| Site 1605 | Parent of: Eade Road (Monument) |
| Mon 818 | Part of: Eade Road Cemetery (Monument) |
| 177 | Related to: Site with no archaeological finds or features, 54 Aylsham Road (Negative evidence) |
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