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MONUMENT NO. 385467

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Early Medieval inhumations found at Cross House Meadow. Finds including the 7th century Ixworth Cross, brooches, shields, swords and spearheads have also been found.

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Anglo-Saxon burials discovered in 1868 in a field
called Cross House Meadow TL 9352 7005(2), where a pair of
cruciform brooches were found on the shoulders of a skeleton.
Previously in 1856, labourers dug up the famous Ixworth gold
pectoral cross with cloisonne garnet work found with the upper
plate of a gold jewelled filigree brooch and 5 bosses, and in
1871 a bronze plate brooch with horse like motifs, a sword, a
spearhead, knife and 3 shield bosses (2 with handles) were also
found in the same field. The 7th century Ixworth Cross is in
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. (Meaney, listing a large number of
finds wrongly interprets them all as belonging to this site.
Those that do not, are shown under TL 97 SW 22). (1-3)

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( 1) by Audrey Meaney 1964 A gazetteer of early Anglo-Saxon burial sites

Page(s)228-9

( 2) Annotated Record Map

Corr 6" (B Brown Undated)

( 3) General reference

Anglo-Saxon Jewellery 1974 54 Illus (R Jessup)

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Early pagan inhumation found South-West of the church ante 1949.

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