E Riding Archaeol 9

Relates the rediscovery of two contemporary newspaper reports (from the Malton Messenger) about Greenwell's 1868 excavation of Uncleby barrow 1, Yorkshire Wolds. They provide more detail about his discoveries -- particularly about the Anglian burials -- than he himself was to publish in British Barrows 1877.

Reassesses the evidence for an Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery which was partially excavated in 1913 and 1982. In total eighteen burials have been recorded. No osteological reports are available, but an analysis of the grave goods suggests that all but the unaccompanied burials were female: there were no definite male graves. The main period of use was from the mid- to late-sixth century. The artefacts are typical of cemeteries of this period and suggest that these particular graves represent the lower end of the social scale. Includes:

which details the discovery of Roman features immediately to the south of the cemetery, suggesting that the ridge on which it was sited was the focus for early settlement

notes the discovery of a bulla of Pope Boniface IX (pope 1389--1404)

which notes the nineteenth-century find of a ceramic statue head (c. late-fifteenth to seventeenth century AD), which was possibly imported from the continent

describes the rectangular block of chalk/fine limestone carved with relief figures on top. The lettering suggests a date of c. 1675--1725 AD. Includes a separately authored note on

which notes a moulded ?copper-alloy medieval spacer