Site of Anglo Saxon Cemetery 400m S of Priory Farm

1 Bloxam records Roman (PRN 3106) and Anglo Saxon finds from Princethorpe. The Anglo Saxon finds include a large bronze brooch and an iron chisel.
3 A number of these finds are now in Warwick Museum.
5 c1848: A bronze cruciform brooch, an iron spearhead with a split socket, an iron ‘chisel’, and a nail, were found with a fragment of ?Romano British pottery at ‘the site of a Roman station’. c1876: A square-headed brooch was found at the same place. Burgess says that Anglo Saxon urns were also found. In Warwick Museum labelled as from Princethorpe is a fine horse-headed bronze cruciform brooch, and an iron ?punch.
6 Correspondance in FI File 3106 talks about a “chape from the Bloxham Collection”. Leslie Webster, in a letter to Dr Ian Stead, confirms the identification of the chape as Anglo-Saxon, on grounds of both form and decoration. She suggests it is a 6th century piece. She concludes “There is a perfectly respectable 6th century Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Princethorpe, from which it presumably derives.” Letter also attached from Dr Graham Webster to HMM.