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Two Oxfordshire Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Berinsfield and Didcot Index by Peter B Gunn References in italics denote figures and tables. There may be textual references on these pages. Aalden, Holland: brooch 81-2 Grave No. 125 55-6 Abbey Mills, Didcot 201 Grave No. 128 56 Abingdon Abbey 204 Grave No. 129 56-7 Abingdon, Oxon , Grave No. 135 58 Abingdon I Grave No. 136 58 amber beads 91 Grave No. 141 59 bone beads 225 Grave No. 149 59-60, 100 dating of graves 142 Grave No. 150 60 early Germanic burials 138 infants 110, 111 early settlement 142, 242 Grave No. 2 29, 86, 92 faience beads 97 Grave No. 13 32 metal-in-glass beads 96 Grave No. 19 33 spearheads 222 Grave No. 37 38 weapon burials 68, 69, 73 Grave No. 64 45, 75, 76, 81 age /sex distribution of deaths 108,108 Grave No. 68 46 Corporation Farm: prehistoric finds 13 Grave No. 74 47 pin finds 89 Grave No. 78 48 pottery 231 Grave No. 103 51 Roman settlement 208 Grave No. 118 54-5 soils 4 Grave No. 150 60 wooden grave structure 121 satellite burial F97 11 see also Ashville; Barton Court Farm neonatal 16 aerial photography Grave No. 38 38 and Didcot 242 see also gender structure land patterns 208 age structure (Didcot) xvi, 211, 233, 238 Mount Farm 27 and knives 222 Roman enclosures 111 and status 242 Roman evidence 14, 16, 26 child burials 224, 239 Wally Corner cropmarks 4, 6,7,7 Grave No. 6 214 aes (coin) 16 Grave No. 9 215 age structure (Berinsfield) xvi, 28, 106 infants 238 burial distribution 133, 136 ' Grave No 12 216, 223, 224, 229 comparison with Abingdon 108, 108 and children's status 242 cremation burials 109 agriculture distribution of deaths 107 Bronze Age 207 grave body position 117,118 cereal crops 4, 27, 142, 220 grave catalogue 28-66 passim disturbance by 11 grave good analysis 130-3 Mount Farm 27 grave population 112-116 pastoral 27, 142 knives 73, 74, 74 and plough damage 8, 101,116, 205, 213 weapon burials 67, 69-70 and Roman ditches: Didcot 208 child burials 69, 75, 106, 116 Thames valley 4 and beads 92 Alcester-Dorchester Roman road 6 and brooches 75, 76 alder remains 222, 235 grave dimensions 120, 121 ale 106 grave good analysis 129,130,131^ 132,132 Alfred 204 Grave No. 2 90 Alfriston, East Sussex 73, 83, 84 Grave No. 5 90 Allen, Major 4, 6, 7 Grave No. 10 31 Allen's Pit: pottery production 24 Grave No. 14 32 alluviation 201 Grave No. 15 32 Alton, Hants Grave No. 35 37 body burial position 239 Grave No. 48 39-40 cremation evidence 123 Grave No. 55 42 four-post structures 108, 123, 124 Grave No. 57 43 grave orientation 124 Grave No. 58 43 amber 142, 224 Grave No. 59 43 amber beads see under beads Grave No. 61 44, 70 amethyst 224 Grave No. 86 49, 88 Amey Roadstone Corporation 3 Grave No. 92 50 Amey's Pit, Burcot 142 Grave No. 122 55 amulet capsules 227 260 Index amulets 223, 229 cropmark evidence 26 Andover, Hants discovery of cemetery 202 weapon burials 68 early history 204 see also Portway land patterns 208 Anglo-Saxon cemeteries see Berinsfield; Didcot pottery 24, 26 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 137 prehistoric finds 13 Anglo-Saxon period " Roman biological samples 3 at Dorchester-on-Thames 243 archaeological background board game 223 Berinsfield 137-42 brooch finds 83 Didcot202, 203 and child burial 131 arrowheads 60, 67, 69, 210 and children's status 242 Ashendon, brooch finds 80 copper alloys 235 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford xvi, 4, 22, 28, 73, 99, 106, 202 cremation burials 61-2 '1980 pot' 101, 102-3 and cremations 108-9 Ashville, Abingdon 3, 27, 208 Didcot features 201, 202, 218-21 Asthall, Oxon, charred wood remains 121 and environmental change 27 Aston Remenham, Berks: brooch finds 80 finger rings 227 Aubrey, John: Miscellanies 97 gaming pieces 222-3 Avon valley: brooches 83 grave patterns 208 bag ring, ivory 53 graves 7, 22 bags/bag collections 228 Lechlade, Butler's Field 7 see also girdle groups ring ditch 14 bangle 227 rings 88 Banstead Down, Surrey 106 Roman coins in graves 229 Barham Down, Kent: inhumations 123, 124 Roman objects in burials 126 barrel padlock 212, 213, 222, 228 settlement 80, 237 Barrington A, Cambs: brooch finds 78 . shield boss 3 Barrow Hills, Radley, Oxon 13, 14, 209, 231 supine burial 239 barrows 130 textile remains 103 Mount Farm 13 vessels 4 Wally Corner 7, 14 '..:' _.. early see also Barrow Hills; pond barrows ..--_.,. at Berinsfield xvi Barton-on-Humber, Humberside: work-boxes 224 at Dorchester-on-Thames 4 Barton Court Farm, Abingdon 3 •"••.».- settlement 137,138-41,139,142, 143, 204 Coleoptera 27 '....... Upper Thames valley 142 pottery 17, 24, 26, 209, 231 . mid Saxon period 141 Roman biological samples 3 . late Saxon period 141 basketwork 78 padlocks 228 Bassett Down, Wilts: metal-in-glass beads 96 see also Berinsfield; Didcot; graves; pottery; sunken beads 33, 37, 38, 45, 75, 76, 91-8, 97, 202, 224-6, 227, 238, 240 featured buildings (SFBs) amber 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 86, 88,.91-2, 92, 93, 94,95, 96, animals 97,98,127 .'] beetles 27, 142 grave catalogue (Berinsfield) 29-34, 38, 40, 43-6, 48-53, birds 62 57,58 ' ••••'". domestic 110-11 barrel-shaped 240 cattle 110, 111,236, 237 biconical 240 dogs 40, 110, 111, 120, 126 bone 215, 216, 225 " horses 110, 212, 222-3, 236, 237 calcareous 91, 97 sheep 16, 38, 56, 62, 103, 110-11, 236, 237 classification of 28 livestock management 207 copper alloy 81 wild 110,119 crystal 41, 42, 88, 91, 94, 97 deer 11,12,110 disc 225 foxes 58, 110, 111, 119 faience 53, 91, 97 rodents 58, 110 glass 76, 81, 82, 88, 91, 92-7, 96, 224, 227, 229, 238 see also bone, animal grave catalogues antler picks 11, 12, 14 Berinsfield 31, 33, 34, 38, 40-3, 45-6, 49-58, 62 Apple Down, West Sussex Didcot214 buckle types 87 metal-in-glass 52, 81, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96-7 burial feature 240 see also beads, monochrome glass; beads, polychrome burial position 118, 124, 239 glass glass beads 96 grave catalogue (Didcot) 211, 214 grave structures 239 : ironstone 91, 97 post structures 108, 123, 124 lead 91, 97, 225 rings 90 monochrome glass 91, 92, 93, 93-4, 97, 225, 226, 240 spiral rings 88 annular 93 wood lining 121 barrel 214, 225 Appleford, Oxon biconical 94, 216, 225, 243 burial evidence 243 disc 93 Coleoptera 27 drawn-cylinder 94 261 Two Oxfordshire Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Berinsfield and Didcot melon 94 sheep 62, 110-11, 236, 237 pentagonal cylinder 94 beads 215, 216, 225 short coiled/coiled cylinders 93 . and building identification 141 short cylinder rounded 94, 214, 225 combs 44, 45, 90, 227 organic 225 counters 223 paste 35, 81 disc 44 polychrome glass 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 226 gaming pieces 222 biconical 95, 2.14, 216, 226 human xviii, 3, 8, 11, 106-8, 202, 204, 211, 233-4 cylinder 95 fromF116 14 disc 95, 216, 226 osteological evidence 232, 237-8 horned 216, 226 , see also cremation burials; graves; osteo-arthritis; melon 95 osteophytes short cylinder 216, 226 pendant 98 short cylinder rounded 95 pins 49, 58, 76, 88, 127 and sex determination 112 and shells 109,110 shell 91, 97 spindle whorl 227 stone 36, 56, 91, 97 weaving pick xvi, 220 wood 215, 216 bowls 22, 24 Beaker: barrows 14 bronze (Perlrandbecken) 204, 243 beakers 19, 22, 24, 26 carinated 22, 102 Beckford, Hereford & Worcester: brooch finds 80, 83, 84 Roman 26 Bede 137, 243 boxes, wood 97, 101, 229 Beech House, Dorchester-on-Thames 102, 138 see also work-boxes beetles 27, 142 bracken: in graves 123 belt fittings 86-7, 126, 130, 137, 138, 225, 229 bracteates 226-7 copper alloy 30, 51, 56, 87, 127 Bradstow, Kent: inhumations 123, 124 Dorchester-type 68 Bretton, Greater Peterborough, Cambs 81 iron 29 Brighthampton, Oxon mount 87, beads 97, 225 see also buckles brooches 78 Bergh Apton, Norfolk 100, 103, 106 bucket 98 Berinsfield, Wally Corner xvi, 2-197 British Museum 13, 28, 223 archaeological/historical context 137-42 Broadstairs, Kent: inhumations 123 cemetery detail 112 bronze cemetery plan and organisation 133-7, 250 bowls 204 discovery of cemetery 3-4, 8 buckle 215 excavation method 8 disc 224 finds 11-14, 67-111 objects 88, 229 limits of cemetery 112 pendants 225 place name 8, 144 spear-shaft fitting 71 post-excavation history xviii wire knot rings 240 prehistoric features 11-14 work-box 229 Roman features 14-16 Bronze Age 27 Roman period 26-7 agriculture and land use 207 Roman pottery 16-26 at Wally Corner 7 site in context 142-3 flint 210 site geography 4 early xvi social organisation 127-33 at Radley 14 see also age structure; gender structure; grave goods; graves; pond barrow 11, 58, 76 pottery; status pottery 209 Bidford-on-Avon, Warwicks: weapon burials 73 early/middle: pottery finds 13 Big Rings henge monument, Dorchester-on-Thames 4, 13, 14 middle/late: land division 207 biological deposits: Mount Farm 27 brooches 75, 75-86, 76, 90, 103, 240 bird vertebra 62 annular 227 Birmingham: City Museum 84 applied 62, 82, 83 Bishop's Court, Dorchester-on-Thames 4,142, 143 bow 81 Bishop's Court House, Dorchester-on-Thames 142, 143 button 32, 33, 75, 80, 126-7 Blewburton, Oxon: brooch finds 77, 81 disc 75, 76-7, 78, 81, 85, 88, 118, 126, 224 Blewburton Hill, Oxon 106 copper alloy 82, 99 Blewbury, Oxon 13 grave catalogue 29-31, 37-8, 40, 43-4, 48-9, 55-6, 60 bone equal-armed 30, 31, 77, 81-2, 82, 124, 126, 142 animal xvi, xviii, 109-11, 207, 218, 236, 236 and female burials 131, 132,132 bird 62 Germanic 137 cattle 236, 237 gold 202, 243 dog 126 Roman 49,' 82, 126 fox 58 saucer 75-6, 77, 83-4, 88, 90, 91, 95, 98, 99, 127, 142, 143 fromF116 14 ., ' .