| Title: |
Excavations at Red Castle, Thetford
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| Issue: |
Norfolk Archaeology 34 (2) |
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Norfolk Archaeology
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| Volume: |
34
(2)
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| Page Start/End: |
119 - 186 |
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| Abstract: |
TL 8683. Graves of Middle Saxon date had been cut through RB and Pagan Saxon material on a site by the junction of the Little Ouse river and the town ditch. Eighty-five skeletons were recovered, detailed anthropometrical and pathological examination indicating that the principal diseases were osteoarthritis and paradontal dental abscesses. The skulls were round, perhaps indicating a Frisian origin, with asymmetry ascribed to cradle binding. The decapitated skulls of a long-headed man and woman had been carefully reburied in separate stone-lined hollows. Cooking hearths were strewn with Middle Saxon pottery. In the 11th cent church the S and E walls of the chancel and vestry were of rubble, with false-ashlar plastering and oolite quoins. Inside were traces of a wooden building. Near the altar lay a fragment of bronze censer and piece of Laconian porphyry. The church was covered by a strong revetted bank and ditch of a circular enclosure with inner perimeter track. No pottery later than about AD 1300 was found. DFR |
| Year of Publication: |
1967
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Bank (Auto Detected Subject) |
| 11th Cent (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Circular Enclosure (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Ad 1300 (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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DITCH
(Monument Type England)
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| Walls (Auto Detected Subject) |
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SHERD
(Object England)
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CHURCH
(Monument Type England)
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EARLY MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| Bronze Censer (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Vestry (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Hearths (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Source: |
ADS Library
(ADS Library)
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| Created Date: |
12 May 2020 |
