NHER 13143 (Monument record) - Possible Early Saxon cemetery

Date of find unknown.
Skeletons uncovered in 'gardens and a meadow near the New Burial Ground', also 'in digging graves in the latter' - many urns found also with bones. Urns were 'lead-coloured, with bottoms like basins and tops like the mouth of an old bottle'.
The letter seems to imply the urns were only found in the burial ground. There is also a reference to 'bones found in the bank of the main road', though whether this is meant to be the same site is unclear. Letter from T. Riches, Sexton, in Bolingbroke Collection, late 19th to early 20th century.
The marking on NHER map is just outside the west wall of the churchyard, in the former garden of the rectory which contains a large pond, and is now mostly built over by Church Close. The rectory is basically 16th century but this garden may not have been laid out until the east wing was built around 1800.
E. Rose (NLA), 21 January 1994.