Monument record 0117700000 - BOURNE END

Summary

Early Saxon inhumation cemetery found in nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at Bourne End

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Site of Saxon cemetery found in 19th and early 20th century

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Type and Period (1)

  • INHUMATION CEMETERY (7th Century to 8th Century - 600 AD to 799 AD)

Description

POSSIBLE A/S CEMETERY NOTED PRE WW2 (B1).
EXISTENCE NOT CORROBORATED; SITE OMITTED FROM OS PERIOD MAPS (B2-3).
COLMER'S PAPERS SHOW THERE WAS A CEMETERY, PROB EXTENSIVE; NO FINDS SURVIVE. FINDS FROM 2 SEPARATE LOCATIONS? (B4).
EVIDENCE RECONSIDERED. INDICATES C7-C8 CEMETERY. FINDS ETC ILLUS (B3).

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC11114 Unpublished document: OS RECORD CARD SU 88 NE 43 (FILED).
  • <2>SBC7428 Unpublished document: LETTER FROM OS JAN 1978 (FILED).
  • <3>SBC4927 Article in serial: Mike Farley (BCM). 1987. 'AN ANGLO SAXON CEMETERY AT BOURNE END, WOOBURN, REINSTATED', IN RECS OF BUCKS 29 PP170-174. Vol 29.
  • <4>SBC3120 Unpublished document: COLMER F 1930'S MSS NOTES & ILLUSTRATION.
  • <5>SBC905 Unpublished document: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER & PIKE A R (BCM) JAN 1980/CAS CARD 1177.
  • <6>SBC4873 Unpublished document: FARLEY M E (BCM) MARCH 1988 WATCHING BRIEF (SLIDES ETC, FILED).

Location

Grid reference SU 89680 87270 (point)
Civil Parish WOOBURN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: Disturbed find (EBC11943)

Record last edited

May 1 2018 3:19PM

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