Site Location: South-East Oxfordshire
Related Achive: Manning (and Leeds)
Percy Manning recorded a number of archaeological finds at Wallingford. The most prominant of these being a late Bronze Age hoard found in the River Thames just below Wallingford Bridge. The hoard included bronze axes, a chisel, a gouge, a razor, a knife, a spearhead and a leaf-shaped sword. The sword is now held by Reading Museum but the rest of the hoard is in the Ashmolean Museum (AN1927.207-2711). Another part of the hoard was in the collection of Rev. J.C. Clutterbuck and given to the Ashmolean Museum in 1908 (AN 1896-1908 PR372-375).
The finds documented in the Manning archive include:
- a bronze axe found in around 1840 in Kinecroft,
- a Bronze Age cremation burial containing an urn with burnt bones, found in the floor of a stable at the back of a building on the High Street,
- a Roman vessel found containing a number of Roman coins found in Chalmore Gardens,
- a Roman eagle and spearheads found in the River Thames at Wallingford,
- a late ninth century Danish sword hilt decorated with engraved silver mounts found in 1874 (AN1890.14) and
- a small urn recovered in 1879 from a field at Rush Court, a mile outside of Wallingford.
Percy Manning also mentions a number of Anglo-Saxon axe and spearheads found in the River Thames at Wallingford.
An early Anglo-Saxon cemetery was also excavated at Wallingford from 1924 to 1938 containing at least 24 burials and 6 cremations. (Find out more about this cemetery)
References:
J Evans (1881) The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, pp128, 167, 219 & 457
E.T. Leeds (1938) "An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Wallingford, Berkshire", Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 42, pp 93-101
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River Thames south of Wallingford taken by Major Allen on 27 August 1939 (Ref Album 19,47) |
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Bronze palstave found in the River Thames (AN1896-1908 PR372) |
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Bronze spearhead found in the River Thames (AN1896-1908 PR373) |
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