Market Lavington, Wiltshire: Anglo-Saxon Cemetery and Settlement: Excavations at Grove Farm, 1986-90

by Phillip Williams and Richard Newman

The village of Market Lavington is located on a low greensand ridge at the foot of the north-west scarp of the chalk that forms Salisbury Plain. Rescue excavations in 1990 recorded an inhumation cemetery probably spanning the late 5th and 6th centuries and possibly extending into the 7th. The cemetery has provided an opportunity to examine burial practise in early Saxon Wiltshire and allowed an assessment of the structure of the social groups being...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874350418
• ISBN13: 9781874350415
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Wessex Archaeology
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.7"