Monument record 0050200000 - BLIND LANE, BOURNE END

Summary

Early Roman inhumation cemetery found digging service trench

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Type and Period (1)

  • INHUMATION CEMETERY (1st Century Roman to 3rd Century - 43 AD to 299 AD)

Description

LEAD COFFIN CONTAINING HUMAN REMAINS FOUND WHILE DIGGING SERVICE TRENCH THROUGH GARDEN OF 48 BLIND LANE, 17 MARCH 1949. REMOVED BY POLICE, & UNGUENT VESSEL FOUND. 9 MAY: FURTHER COFFIN FOUND 13YDS W OF 1ST. PARTS OF 3RD BURIAL FOUND 10 JUNE A FEW YDS FROM 2ND (B1-5,B10).
1ST COFFIN AT NGR (B7).

Sources (10)

  • <1>SBC11482 Bibliographic reference: P.C.R.WOODESON (BUCKS CONSTABULARY) REPORT ON FIND ING OF HUMAN REMAINS AT BOURNE END/ MR GEOFFREY P.
  • <2>SBC13237 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 15 1949 P226.
  • <3>SBC6826 Bibliographic reference: JNL OF ROMAN STUDIES 40 1950 P102.
  • <4>SBC11112 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 88 NE 01.
  • <5>SBC490 Article in serial: 1949. ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER 2 NO 1 MAY 1949 P18 (PHOTOCOPY FILED).
  • <6>SBC2245 Bibliographic reference: C N GOWING 1975 (& SEE CORRESPONDENCE FILED).
  • <7>SBC3207 Graphic material: CORRESPONDENCE FROM DONNA R PRESTON, & 1:1250 SCALE PLAN OF SEWER.
  • <8>SBC6246 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. Early Man in South Buckinghamshire. pp115,147; Fig 29.
  • <9>SBC11893 Verbal communication: Andrew Pike (BCM). 1987. PERS COMM, AND INFORMATION FROM BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER.
  • <10>SBC26894 Article in serial: Vol 2, number 2. 1949. Archaeological News Letter vol 2, no.2, June 1949 p35 (photocopy filed).

Location

Grid reference SU 89675 88015 (point)
Civil Parish WOOBURN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC1201)

Record last edited

Nov 24 2024 1:00AM

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