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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… fieldwork. However the most significant monument is the Wessex-type Bell Barrow (2), excavated in 1969, which is at … b.c., a calendar date of perhaps 1500 B.C. A bronze ogival Wessex-type dagger with a central midrib (CamertonSnowshill …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Continent no later than the group that introduced the Wessex culture, that is, probably somewhere in the 4th …
A History of the County of Chester
… seems to have been consonant with a formula recorded for Wessex in the Burghal Hidage, which stated that every hide of … in the troubled reign of Eadwig (955-7 in Mercia, 955-9 in Wessex) as few as 11. 10 Under Edgar (957-75) the mint became …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… by Grinsell which sought to explain and date 'post-Wessex culture' Bronze Age material largely on the basis of … pond barrows are associated in particular with the Wessex culture of the Early Bronze Age. There are only a few … is only one quarter that of the county. Even within the Wessex region, therefore, archaeologically characterised by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the barrow numbers on the Ordnance Survey Map of Neolithic Wessex (1932) are listed respectively under the headings …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… on sandy buried surface was primary inhumation (probably Wessex culture) without skull, wrapped in stitched animal … from the top of this barrow in about 1914. Primary burial (Wessex interment no. 4): probably cremation under inverted … and six or eight segmented faience beads, all now in B.M. (Wessex interment no. 5). In top of mound four inhumations, a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… included in the 'Wihttringes' given by Caedwalla, King of Wessex, to Bishop Wilfrid for the endowment of the minster of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is given us in Bede is that, on his journey from Italy, Wessex was the first part of Britain that he reached; that, … Oswald, king of Northumbria, who happened to be in Wessex at the time and was shortly to be his son-in-law, … rather than at, or near, Winchester, the capital of Wessex, we cannot tell. It may be that, as the chronicle …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. xxi. 1-27; A. Major, Early Wars of Wessex, ed. C. W. Whistler (1913), 171 sqq. Locke's Additions …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… beside it. Associated with the burial were artefacts of Wessex Culture type, an ogival bronze dagger, a large …