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1980 Programme
-- A eurveysProgramme his'been planned which will indlude buildings in
Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and West Cambridgeshire.
-General research work-on building plans and the-devéloOment Of
medieval and latercarpentry in the.regiOn Will continue.
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Publicetions-
Towards the end of 1979 John Bailey published "Timber Framed Buildings"
which is an authorative handbook on the.development, construction
and typology of timber framed buildings in the region. The booklet is
illustrated with examples ofeome of the:buildingsthat have been surveyed
in Bede, Bucks; Cambs and Herts and 'summariees SoMe of the results
of the groups work.' Copies of the Book Can 66 Obthined from: 27
Langdale.foad, Dunstable,Bedfordshire, £1.50 post paid. Cheques:pairable
to. Miss. M.L.
future Publications
4 is hope&that a furtner bOok entitled "The Timber Framed Buildings
Of BUckinghamshire".will be published in 1980 or 1981.
Interim resulteofyork.on particular cruck buildings imBhckinghamshire.is
being prepared for publication; this:includes some of the Long
6endon examples.
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ANGL-SAXON.CEMETERIES'and 19th Century Collecting: bisCOvery, Chance
anciSUrvivâl'- DevidsH. Kennett'
The CéMeteries
The publication offinds and-other evidence from discoveries made
in.the 19th-Century and,earlier is among-the primary dutieeof the student
.of Anglo-Saxon
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cemeteries. Without full catalogues of: the available material,,the
conclusions drawn,from the evidence Will; Of necessity, be less
valid than woOld otherwise:be the case. .SuchconclusiOns, however, may be
misleading if. insufficient regard is paid to the quality of the evidence
for individual Anglo-Saxon cemeteriee.:'ThiS paper seeks to examine ,the,
material aVailable for foûr cemeteries found in-Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.
In so doing,'some generil conclusions will be draWn about the
information which can usefully be extracted from the study of any one...
cemetery. The sites chosen include examples of the different rites and
date..ranges represented in AngloSaxon' cemeteries. Kettering is a cremation:cemetery,
with pots dating to-the,5th and 6th Centuries. -Burton
LatiMer,is,a;MixedimhUmation and cremation,cemeteryof the same date-range.
The KemPston Cemetery has both inhumation.and-crematiomburials and includes
finds of the 5th to 7th Centuries. The DeSborough finds represent
an inhumation cemetery Of the final phase of the 7th
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Century.
BURTON LATIMER, Northamptonshire
In March 1891, the'British MiseUM.PurchaSed from J.F. Nurman of West
Street, Oundle, Northamptonshire, a group of 14 pots, a shield boss with
a decorated top and some other finds found "some years before on the boundary
of Barton Seagrave and Burton Latimer parishes". Subsequently in
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