Wiltshire and Swindon Historic Environment Record
Details for record number ST86SW402
Type
Monument
Title / Name
Early Medieval Burials, Glebe Cottage Garden, 12 Church Street
Summary
Six articulated inhumation burials and a Saxon cist burial.
Monument Types and Dates
BURIAL, Saxon (410 to 1065)
Other Details
Source Detail: Powell, A.C., 2005
Title: An Archaeological Investigation and Evaluation of The Glebe Cottage Garden, 12 Church Street, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Summary: Evaluation Source ID: SWI25054
Additional Information: Bradford Hundred Archaeology
Description: Evaluation in advance of proposed development recorded two small boundary walls, a late 17th/18th century pit which cut through a sealed medieval and late Saxon layer and a long cist burial. Underneath the medieval layer, six articulated inhumation burials were revealed, recorded and re-buried. These burials were aligned east-west and found to be contemporary with the Saxon cist burial.
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