ANGLO-SAXON DISCOVERY
Journey through Anglo-Saxon life and death

This building had two posts which supported the roof. It seems to have had a stone floor or hearth at one end of the building.

The objects found in this house included:

• several spindle whorls including one made of lead
• animal bones

• fragments of pottery
• bone pin

• several iron nails

• iron pin

• pot lid made from the base of a Roman pot

What do these finds tell us about this house?

These objects are what an archaeologist would expect to find in an Anglo-Saxon house. The spindle whorls would have been used by women and children for spinning. The pins were probably lost from someone's clothes. The pot fragments and lid were probably used for cooking and storing food. The nails may have held furniture together.

Find out more about the finds from other houses at Sutton Courtenay:

House 9	House 14	House 20	House 27	House 28