Findspot - Migration or Early Medieval clay loomweights
Description of this historic site
Findspot - clay loom weights dating to the Migration or Early Medieval period were found 200m west of Sheepy Road, Atherstone.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Anglo-Saxon loomweights found before 1940 in S extension to cemetery, Cemetery Superintendent. Now in Tamworth Museum, Birmingham Museum and Warwick Museum.
2 Saxon loomweights from SW corner of cemetery. The cemetery superintendent indicated the approx. spot at SP3098 where the weights were found in 1946.
3 Finds are accessioned in the Museum.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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