Wasperton

Wasperton cottages

Wasperton is a village and parish in the Kington Hundred of Warwickshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 153.

It is on the east bank of the Warwickshire Avon and is some five miles south of the county town of Warwick which is easily accessed by the A429 road.

Between 1980 and 1985 extensive excavations in advance of gravel digging revealed a cemetery which contained both Roman and Anglo-Saxon graves.

In all 182 burials and 25 cremations were uncovered. Of these burials, 36 are "Roman", 137 "Anglo-Saxon" while 9 show some aspects of both customs. The presence of these "mixed" burials indicates that there was a transition period when the community began to adopt Anglo-Saxon burial practices. Larger image

Further Reading

• Wise, P.J. (1991) "Wasperton" in Current Archaeology, no. 126, pp 256-9.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wasperton)

• Location map: 52°13’36"N, 1°36’43"W
• Community website (shared with two other communities)

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