East Riding Museums

Wood, textile, copper alloy, charcoal and organic samples, taken from various graves, including - Grave 35 (Ancient Monument lab numbers 590130, 590132, 590134A&B - textile and organic material from a brooch and girdle hanger end. Grave 49 (AML 590155 - organic material from girdle hanger, also fragments from baseboard of coffin and 590149 soil blocks with small copper alloy fragments associated with the bronze cauldron found in grave 49) and Grave 50 (AML 744224 - wooden or textile object). Grave 51 - charcoal sample? from top of grave (AML 744223). Also a large piece of carbonized wood and smaller fragments from grave 53 (1974) - AML number 744222. Excavation: Anglian cemetery, Home Farm, Sewerby, 1959 & 1974.