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Anglo-Saxon Urns from North Elmham, Norfolk: some corrected attributions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
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In 1937 I illustrated and described in this Journal two Anglo-Saxon urns from the collection of our Fellow, the late Mr. V. B. Crowther-Beynon. The urns, which had once belonged to Captain Arthur Trollope of Lincoln, had been rescued in fragments by Mr. Crowther-Beynon together with other debris from the Captain's collection when the latter's daughters vacated the rectory at Edith Weston, Rutland, on the death of their brother, Rev. Andrew Trollope, in 1896. No record remained of their original findspot, but in view of Arthur Trollope's Lincolnshire associations we thought it safe to publish them as coming from that county. Though Mr. Crowther-Beynon was rightly more cautious, I was myself rash enough to suggest that they might have come from Lincoln itself since another Anglo-Saxon urn which Trollope possessed (now in Lincoln Museum) was believed to have been found in the Eastgate not far from his house in that city.
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page 47 note 1 xvii (1937), 424–37 and pl. xci. They have recently been bought for the British Museum from Mr. Crowther-Beynon's executors.
page 47 note 2 Ibid., pl. xci (a); here reproduced pl. xi (a.)
page 47 note 3 Pl. xi (b).
page 48 note 1 Op. cit., pl.xci (b); here reproduced pl.xii (a).
page 48 note 2 Pl. xii (b).
page 48 note 3 Arch. Journ. x (1853), 161.
page 48 note 4 Pl. xiii (a).
page 49 note 1 The origin of such a confusion can be readily understood by imagining the answer to an inquiry ‘Where did this urn come from ?’ being given in the form ‘From Trollope, Eastgate, Lincoln’. Such an answer, with its misunderstanding between the findspot of the object and the address of the donor, may well account for the label on the pot.
page 49 note 2 Proc. Norf. and Norwich Arch. Soc. xxvii, 221–2.
page 49 note 3 S.A. MSS. 265. 14 and pl. xiii (b). I am indebted to Mr. Philip Corder for calling my attention to this drawing.
page 49 note 4 S.A. Minute Books, vii, 128. These also seem to have disappeared, unless one of them is the large vessel still in the Society's collection whose findspot is not known. This identification is accepted as probable by Rainbird Clarke (op. cit. 221), but on what grounds I do not know.