Find Spot record 0068600002 - VICINITY OF DINTON CASTLE

Summary

Saxon metalwork found digging the foundations for the castle in the eighteenth century

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0138 mm
FOUND DURING DIGGING OF FOUNDATION TRENCH FOR CASTLE (B1). CLAIMS 2 SPEAR-HEADS FOUND (PRESUMABLY 2ND WAS THE KNIFE)(B2). SOCKETED SPEARHEAD, 138MM LONG AT SHOULDER. ILLUSTRATION (B10).

Sources (13)

  • <1>SBC1810 Bibliographic reference: BRAND J 1792 DESCRIPTION...OF SUNDRY ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN DINTON IN ARCHAEOLOGIA10P169-171"".
  • <2>SBC4295 Bibliographic reference: DOUGLAS J 1793 NENIA BRITANNICA P69 (PHOTOCOPY FILED).
  • <3>SBC7620 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 2 PP154-155 & ILLUSTRATIONS.
  • <4>SBC13302 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1860 2 PP137-140; 1872 4 P100; 1946 14 P315.
  • <5>SBC14127 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P115.
  • <6>SBC15292 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 1 PP197-198.
  • <7>SBC8304 Bibliographic reference: MEANEY A 1964 GAZETTEER OF EARLY ANGLO SAXON BURIAL SITES P57.
  • <8>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.
  • <9>SBC6095 Bibliographic reference: HARDEN D B 1956 GLASS VESSELS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND AD 400-1000 IN HARDENDB(ED)DARKAGEBRITAINPP.
  • <10>SBC14991 Bibliographic reference: SWANTON M J 1973 SPEARHEADS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON SETTLEMENT PP174-175 (ROYAL ARC.INSTITUTE).
  • <11>SBC4851 Bibliographic reference: FARLEY M E (BCM) JAN 1978.
  • <12>SBC372 Bibliographic reference: ALLEN D W H & FARLEY M E (BCM) JUNE 1980.
  • <13>SBC6516 Article in serial: Andrew Hunn, Jo Lawson & Mike Farley. 1994. 'THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT DINTON, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE', IN ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES VOL 7 PP85-148.

Location

Grid reference SP 76530 11540 (point)
Civil Parish DINTON-WITH-FORD AND UPTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • SPEAR (Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC11949)

Record last edited

Nov 23 2004 3:57PM

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