An Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery and Archaeological Survey at Breamore, Hampshire, 1999–2006

A Well-Married Landscape: Networks of Association and 6th-Century Communities on the Isle of Wight

“…"40 Grave 8, the other cist, is much less substantially constructed and contained only an iron knife. From the reconstructed site plan cld 45 lies at the end of a row of graves all orientated north east to south west (the line is discontinued by the edge of a marl pit).41 Those to the south of cld 45 in the line are unfurnished burials (graves 46, 47, 50 and 52) with the exception of a south east to north west orientated spear grave (48).…”

“…47 The decorated pail from grave 1 at Shallow's Farm, Breamore in a double burial has close similarities in terms of its decorative scheme with the Chessell Down item. 48 The find of bridle fitment first alerted investigators to the presence of early Anglo-Saxon material near a crossing point of the river,49 yet this was an object that came too from the eastern Mediterranean.…”