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Also known as Magdalen Bridge
- Status- Discredited [Graham-Campbell 2001] Disputed [Blair & Crawford 1997]
- Find Type- River Find (River Cherwell, Oxford)
- Find date- AD 1884
- Bodies- Men and horse skeletons found by dredging?
- Dated to- C9th by Stirrup style
- Museum- Ashmolean Museum [1886, 443-47]
- Publications-
- Archaeologia Vol. 71 (1920-21) p.253 (not available)
- Grave goods 1884 - dredging in the river under Magdalen Bridge
- Spearhead - [1884.514] dated AD 850-900 by Jan Petersen [Seaby 1950:p.38]
- Shield boss - [1884.513] like the pagan Anglo-Saxon bosses dated to C5th-7th [Seaby 1950:p.37]
- Grave goods 1886 - cutting back the island below Magdalen Bridge
- Stirrups (Pair) - [1886.443, 444] - Wheeler Class C / Rygh 590. Not actually a pair, different in decoration and size.[Seaby 1950:p.38] Dated by Jan Petersen to AD 950-1000 [Seaby 1950:p.39]
- Stirrup - [1886.445] dated to AD 1000-1125. [Seaby 1950:p.39] C11th-12th [Blair & Crawford 1997]:p.138
- Horseshoe - [1886.446] dated to late medieval [Seaby 1950:p.40-41] [Blair & Crawford 1997]:p.138
- Shears - [1886.447] dated to C11th [Seaby 1950:p.39], C10th-11th [Blair & Crawford 1997]:p.137
- Spur - [1886.1232] dated to c.1000 [Blair & Crawford 1997]:p.137
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