Monument record 0050201000 - BLIND LANE, BOURNE END

Summary

Early Roman inhumation found digging service trench

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Type and Period (1)

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

Description

Dimensions - Length 0213 cm Width 0076 Depth/Thickness 0046
LEAD COFFIN FOUND WHILE CUTTING SEWER TRENCH IN GARDEN OF 48 BLIND LANE, C.1.5M BELOW SURFACE. REMOVED BY POLICE (B1-5). DIMENSIONS AS ABOVE (B1). COFFIN BADLY DECAYED & CRUMBLED WHEN LIFTED (B1). CONTAINED SKELETON OF MALE, 45-55 YRS, C1.55M TALL WITH LEG FRACTURE & MALFORMED & DISEASED SPINE (B1-3).

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  • <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 Bibliographic reference: ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER 2 NO 1 MAY 1949 P 18 (PH OTOCOPY 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>SBC6282 Bibliographic reference: HEAD J F 1955 EARLY MAN IN SOUTH BUCKS PP115, 147 & FIG 29..
  • <9>SBC11893 Verbal communication: Andrew Pike (BCM). 1987. PERS COMM, AND INFORMATION FROM BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER.

Location

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

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12078)

Record last edited

Aug 18 1988 12:00AM

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