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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
I beg leave to lay before the Society of Antiquaries a further report of my researches in the Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Long Wittenham, which were renewed in the summer and autumn of last year, with the kind co-operation of the Vicar, the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. These researches terminated earlier than I anticipated, and the result appears to show that the cemetery did not extend beyond the limits of the plot of ground called “the Free Acre,” described in my former report. I may mention that I have since ascertained that this plot was formerly known as the “Town Furlong,” and that its enclosures were levelled and obliterated about sixty years since.
page 135 note a For reports on previous excavations, see Archæologia, Vol. XXXVIII. p. 327.
page 135 note b Vol. XXXVI. p. 277.
page 136 note a This person must have emulated St. Gertrude, and have been an inveterate spinner. The three whirls, of different sizes and weights, were perhaps designed for the spinning of different materials.
page 136 note b I wish particularly to direct attention to the fibulse found in Grave 186, the devices on which indicate, as I conceive, a late period of Anglo-Saxon art.
page 136 note c Deinde (corpus) ponitur in speluncâ in qua in quibusdam locis ponitur aqua benedicta, et pruinœ cum thure. Durand. Div. Off. vii. c. 35.
page 137 note a Inventorium Sepulchrale, by Rev. Bryan Faussett, edited by Smith, C. Roach. 4to. London, 1856. p. 68.Google Scholar
page 137 note b Inventorium Sepulchrale.
page 137 note c Neville, Saxon Obsequies, illustrated by ornaments and weapons. Folio. London, 1852.
page 137 note d Cod. Diplom. vol. ii. p. 71; Chron. Monast. de Abingdon. vol. i. p. 41, and vol. ii. p. 502.
page 138 note a Leges Ed. Conf. xxviii. ed. Thorpe.
page 138 note b The Saxons in England, book i. chap. ix.
page 138 note c The collection has since been purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum.
page 139 note a Nearly all the urns found in these and in the previous diggings were damaged beyond recovery.
