Late Roman or early Anglo-Saxon inhumation near Clavering Castle, Clavering (EHER 116)

Possible late Roman or early Saxon Christian inhumation in stone coffin. Other bones and skulls were also seen in the vicinity, but are of unknown date.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Coffin in Barnack stone, containing a skeleton, found in 1923 to the north of Clavering churchyard and on the edge of the castle moat 2ft below the surface. Probably it was an Anglo-Saxon inhumation. No grave goods were found though two large flints were at the head. The skeleton was identified as Roman but as being of 'late Roman-early Christian' associations. The coffin is similar to a Roman one found at Lord's Bridge near Cambridge. An old inhabitant remembered bones and skulls being found here in quantity when he was young and a village tradition claims that a bridge crossed the moat near this spot. He indicated the coffin find spot and stated that the coffin had been reburied. <1> <2> 1975. Field survey. The findspot of the stone coffin at TL 47043185 was indicated by Mr Livings (the son of Livings in Authy 1) now in his eighties who was present when the discovery was made. He stated that the coffin was re-interred. Findspot surveyed at 1:2500. <3> See also: <4>