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e from Kettering, but the large collection of ill-provenanced ironwork
is more likely to come from Brixworth or'Duston.
At Burton Latimer, the surviving pots and other items look extremely
like one man's share or the loot'from the ironetbne diggings. It is known
for' instance that an 'interested person collected finds fromHtbe ironstofie
digging's at Rothwell but that his collection of Anglo-Saxon (and other)
items is incomplete. Mr. Nurman and Miss Newman who gave the Burton -
Latimer finds to the British MuseUm Are probably_father and daUghter.
Their collection has cremation urns and accessory'vessels,'to 'judge from
the smaller pots, and the female jewellery, makes it clear that inhumations
were present at the Burton. Latimer cemetery..
It can be suggested that these items'- a cruciform brooch, a pair
of small-long brooches, a girdle-hanger and its attachment, a pair of
plain sleeve.clasps and a small string of beads presumably ,once worn at
the wrist - are one woman's'jewellery.' A variety of graves,have.similar
assemblages: A grave from Holdefiby contained a large great square-headed
brooch, a pair of saucer brooches, multiple strings of beads, a bronze
tube (?.bruShholder), and sleeve clasps; excluding the 'sleeve clasps,
which indicate only a dress fastened at the wrist, the great square-headed
brooch from Luton was associated with the same array of objects; among
the finds from St. John's College Cricket Field, Canbridge, is-a gravegroup
with a group IV cruciform brooch, a pair of small-long broobhes, a
pair of sleeve clasps, beads and bronze spacer beads.
The other piece from Burton Latimer is the shield boss. The boss has
a top ornament with a chip-carved gilt bronze stud. If it were not for
this it would have seemed unremarkable; no other ironwork is extant from
Burton Latimer. If it were not for the stud, it would not have been retained.
The idea that it is impossible to miss, advanced for the Desborough
hecklace, reappears.
If the shield boss is too obvious to be thrown away and the other
metalwork is a single grave group, are these and the pots the finds of a
single day's digging? The question cannot be answered, but the suspicion
is there. This paper is not designed to provide detailed discussion of
the individual objects from Burton Latimer. Consideration in depth of 'the
pottery would be premature in view of the work presentlY being done on
the f;Pds from the Kettering, Stamford Road, cemetery: the correlations
are too close. Two examples may suffice.
The first vessel has been illustrated as a parallel to a late Buckelurne
from Kettering. The latter has two lines of stamps oon the neck: one
is the long 'S' stamp found on the Burton Latimer pot. On the Kettering
pot there are four vertical bosses and four slashed diagonal bosses with
the interspaces completely filled with stamps; the long 'S' stamp already
mentioned and a concentric circle stamp which is also found on the Burton
Latimer pot. The Kettering pôt also has a squire stamp with a diagonally
placed cross. J.N.L. Myres has assumed the same potter was responsible for
the two vessels.
The second vessel has stamps shown to correlate first to a sherd from
Islip and through this to a group of pots found at Kettering and possibly
to one found at Holdenby.
The plain urns have parallels in other Northamptonshire cemeteries:
Kettering, Newton-in-the-Willows and Brixworth; but the shapes are not
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