Documentation from the 2013-2019 Project: 'The Archaeology of Bidford-on-Avon: The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery'
Tania Dickinson, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5284/1052662. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
The Archaeology of Bidford-on-Avon project (2013-19), directed by Sue Hirst and Tania Dickinson, was established to complete publication of multi-period rescue excavations carried out between 1970 and 1994 in Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
A significant component of these excavations was the recovery, intermittently between 1971 and 1990, of a minimum of 37 burials (and up to 12 part-skeletons) from the large early Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the west of the village, first excavated and published in the 1920s. A further 6 burials, recovered from a site some 50 metres to the east, were dated by radiocarbon analyses to the Roman and middle/late Anglo-Saxon periods. These burials comprise only about 10 per cent of the known total for the cemetery, so to put them into a meaningful context the project included a re-examination of the published and unpublished data for the pre-1971 discoveries.
Although the standards of excavation, publication and subsequent curation of the 1920s finds, and the relatively poor state of preservation of the finds made since 1971, placed limitations on what the research could achieve, it has resulted in a thorough and up-to-date reappraisal of the cemetery and its implications for the early medieval archaeology of the Avon valley. Documentation created to assist this research is contained in this collection.
