Monument record 0056400000 - ANGLE WAY NEAR COP HILL

NO OF SKELETONS REGULARLY INTERRED & ABUNDANT INDICATIONS OF CREMATION & URN BURIAL FOUND WHEN MAKING A NEW ROAD (B1).
PROBABLY ROMAN (SAMIAN ETC FOUND) BUT LIPSCOMB POINTS TO SAXON INTERMENTS ON SITE (B9).
ATTEMPT TO TRACE ROAD WHICH WAS BEING MADE IN 1824 (B11).




(SP 69900938) Roman Burial Ground ® (B15).

A cemetery, apparently of Roman or RB origin was discovered in 1824 during limestone digging in a field about a furlong N of the church at Long Crendon and near a road called angleway (B8).
The principal objects found were a large urn, a small portion of another and besides ashes and burnt bones, including those of birds, seven brass rings at one time set with stones - possibly earpendants There were also a number of small urns, 8 Samian paterae, a lamp of the same ware and a small sarcophagus containing three small urns, all perfect. At a later date near the same site was found a pot of small Roman coins, some of Claudius (AD 41-54) (B1).

It is probable that this group of remains is of Roman date, but Lipscombe points to the fact that a Saxon interment was made on the site of the Roman one, as some of the remains referred to above could not have been Roman. Many skeletons were found regularly interred and near them abundant indications of cremation and urn burials (B2).

The seven brass rings from this site are in Bucks Co Museum Acc No 164 60.The site is under pasture with the field to the East ploughed but with no indications of the cemetery. There is an amorphous amound, probably natural but accentuated by quarrying, on the site, but it is doubtful whether it has any Roman or Post Roman affinities (B16)

NRHE Insert 1999 (B17)

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