Anglo-Saxon burial near Barrasford (Chollerton)
NY 919736. Inhumation burial, secondary in barrow. A tumulus or cairn of stones on the escarpment above Barrasford Burn, was excavated pre-1875 in making the railway cutting near the station. Finds included a shield-boss with six silver discs, a sword and a knife. Lower in the mound was an urn, thought to be British. (1)
The finds went to Alnwick Castle Museum. (2)
Found on the eastern brow of the ravine of the Swinburn on the site of the railway near Barrasford Station. (approx siting therefore, NY 92077347. (3)
Only a portion of an urn was preserved. Illustration shows a rim fragment with a lug and five rows of incised marking, presumably a food vessel. (4)
No visible remains. (5)
Rim fragment with at least two cavetto zones with about six applied stops in each. Decorated all over. In Alnwick Castle Museum. (6)
Barrow near Barrasford Station opened in 1858. Food vessel urn and a Saxon burial. (7)
Secondary burial discovered in a barrow in 1858. 6th-7th century AD. (8)
The finds went to Alnwick Castle Museum. (2)
Found on the eastern brow of the ravine of the Swinburn on the site of the railway near Barrasford Station. (approx siting therefore, NY 92077347. (3)
Only a portion of an urn was preserved. Illustration shows a rim fragment with a lug and five rows of incised marking, presumably a food vessel. (4)
No visible remains. (5)
Rim fragment with at least two cavetto zones with about six applied stops in each. Decorated all over. In Alnwick Castle Museum. (6)
Barrow near Barrasford Station opened in 1858. Food vessel urn and a Saxon burial. (7)
Secondary burial discovered in a barrow in 1858. 6th-7th century AD. (8)
N9302
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1967; D Smith
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