Anglo-Saxon inhumation, River Arrow and River Avon confluence, Worcestershire

Description of this historic site

A mandible reported to police was subsequently sent for radiocarbon dating and osteological analysis. The mandible, probably from a female over 35 years, was suggested as having become displaced from a previously unidentified Anglo-Saxon cemetery.

Notes about this historic site

1 A mandible reported to police was subsequently sent for radiocarbon dating and osteological analysis. The mandible, probably from a female over 35 years, was suggested as having become displaced from a previously unidentified Anglo-Saxon cemetery.

Please note: the reported location of the find was in Worcestershire, but its proximity to Warwickshire perhaps indicates from its origin in a cemetery on the Warwickshire side of the border.

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