Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information

SMR Number

SU09SE400

Site Name

Cricklade

Grid Ref

SU09909397

Parish

Cricklade

Photographs

Images for Cricklade (if available)

District

North Wiltshire

Site Type

Town

Period

Early Medieval (Saxon)

Scheduled Monument

AM323,AM872

Finds

Stone (building material)

X Y Grid Ref

409900, 193970

Altitude

83.82 metres

Geology

Oxford Clay

Description

Walled Saxon town.

Details

A Saxon walled town. One of King Aelfreds burghal hidage towns. Anglo-Saxon masonry incorporated in St Sampsons Church. The cemetery extension was excavated in 1990.

Sources

Cricklade Town Walls 1990 Wessex Archaeology

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 19, p283-98

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 58, p167-8

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 85, p160

The Buildings of England, Wiltshire 1975 199 1975 Pevsner, N.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 67, p93-106 1972 FT WAINWRIGHT; CA RALEIGH RADFORD

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 70-1, p131

Medieval Archaeology Vol 3 Fig11:10

Medieval Archaeology Vol 14, p88-91

Victoria County History 1 1 61-2 1957 Grinsell, L.V.

Devizes Museum 1994.310 315-7 1994 Devizes Museum

Devizes Museum 1995.25 1995 Devizes Museum

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