Approx location of the Late Saxon cemetery in Ketton Quarry, also showing the interesting nearby name 'Normanton'...pic.twitter.com/2K0ekqwIOS
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Approx location of the Late Saxon cemetery in Ketton Quarry, also showing the interesting nearby name 'Normanton'...pic.twitter.com/2K0ekqwIOS
Normanton = 'the farm or estate of the Norwegians', & one of the ppl buried in the cem has an isotope result consistent w/ such an origin...
A brief report on the L9th-11thC cemetery+settlement excavated at Ketton, Rutland: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1164-1/dissemination/pdf/Annual_Reports_1986-2007/Annual_Report_13_1998.pdf … (pp.46-7)pic.twitter.com/8GdYcfhM4P
Compare Masham, Yorks, where poss Scandinavian migrants similarly present in 'normal' AS cem http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ojoa.12045/abstract …pic.twitter.com/Y5DH4FVN1q
Fwiw, 1 of the Ketton burials has isotope values that fall in middle of results from Weymouth Viking mass-burial… (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/highlights/2010/vikings.html …)pic.twitter.com/LG7DlONppg
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