Monday 17th March 2025 - Andrew Newton
Exning Cemetery
Abstract: Exning Cemetery
'Exning in Suffolk, according to the Liber Eliensis, is the birthplace of St Aethelthryth, who would become Abbess of Ely. This suggests the presence of a high-status Anglo-Saxon settlement at Exning but until archaeological work was undertaken to the south of Burwell Road in Exning, little physical evidence for this existed. Excavation of this site identified a series of burials demonstrating that a group of wealthy, and therefore presumably influential, people were active in and around Exning in the 7th century.
Bio:
Andrew Newton has worked in archaeology in eastern England for the last 20 years and has written several monographs and a variety of papers on sites of different dates and character across the region. He is currently Principal Archaeologist- Post-Excavation Research and Publication at Wardell Armstrong LLP
Exning Cemetery
Abstract: Exning Cemetery
'Exning in Suffolk, according to the Liber Eliensis, is the birthplace of St Aethelthryth, who would become Abbess of Ely. This suggests the presence of a high-status Anglo-Saxon settlement at Exning but until archaeological work was undertaken to the south of Burwell Road in Exning, little physical evidence for this existed. Excavation of this site identified a series of burials demonstrating that a group of wealthy, and therefore presumably influential, people were active in and around Exning in the 7th century.
Bio:
Andrew Newton has worked in archaeology in eastern England for the last 20 years and has written several monographs and a variety of papers on sites of different dates and character across the region. He is currently Principal Archaeologist- Post-Excavation Research and Publication at Wardell Armstrong LLP