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At a Special Meeting of the Members of the Society, 

 held at the Museum, on the 2\st of December, 1875, Mr. 

 J. Tom Burgess, F.S.A., delivered the following Lecture 

 on the Saxons in Warwickshire, when the Remains 

 recently found at Longbridge, and other Saxon Weapons, 

 Pottery, and Ornaments belonging to the Marquis of 

 Hertford were exhibited. 



A few years ago the known Saxon Antiquities of War- 

 wickshire were so few that they might be easily counted on 

 the fingers. We could only point to the causeway at 

 Tamworth Castle, and to the " long and short " work in 

 Wooton Wawen Church as evidences of Saxon architec- 

 ture. Graves had been opened at Cesterover, and remains 

 found at Bensford bridge and at Marten ; fibulae and 

 brooches had been found at Walton, at My ton, and at 

 Eagley; but except at Marton, warlike implements had not 

 been found. The late Mrs. BufFery, of Emscote, however, 

 had in her possession a spear head or two and a knife of 

 this period, found near Long ij^ington, which she intended 

 to present to the Warwick Museum. An Anglo-Saxon 

 cemetery was known to exist at Bidford, but this I believe 

 has not been thoroughly or even pai-tially explored. The 

 Museum at Warwick, the collections of the Marquis of 

 Hertford, Sir Charles Mordaunt, and 'Mr. Matthew 

 Bloxam, contained twelve months ago all the known 

 remains of the Anglo-Saxon period of Warwickshire his- 

 tory. Possibly others may be preserved, like those at 

 Offchurch, without a record. The discovery at Longbridge 

 at the latter part of last year was therefore an event in our 

 county history, because the variety of articles, their rarity 

 and value, have seldom been surpassed in England, and in 

 Mid-England are unique as a whole. 



