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Location: Worcester, Worcestershire
Name and type: St Mary, Benedictine cathedral priory
Founded: c AD 970 (on the site of an earlier community)
Dissolved: 1540
References: Guy 1994
Database code: XWOC92 (Excel data only)
Thirty-nine individual burials from lay cemetery north of cathedral church, with elements from disarticulated burials. Associated pottery was 12th to 14th century. No plan or catalogue provided. Leonard Wilkinson identified a total of perhaps 210 individuals. Male to female ratio of this larger group was 1.5M:1F (78:52). Subadults comprised 31% (65), and elderly 10% (20). Burial practice uncommon; one copper-alloy ring, one arrowhead lodged in rib, and an unknown number of examples of stones placed in the mouth.