What was already known about the site and what especially attracted TT to it?
Metal detectorist Steve Bolger found the bucket or ‘situla’, to give it its Latin name two years ago. He reported his find under the Portable Antiquities Scheme to the local portable antiquities officer, Sally Worrell. In response to this discovery the ‘situla’ is one of only two or three that have ever been found in Britain (there are only about 10 others known worldwide) Berkshire Archaeological Services conducted some test excavations. They found four inhumation burials in the immediate area of the bucket, suggesting that the site is an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Other finds, discovered in the test excavations and through metal detecting, included Frankish weights, shield bosses and brooches. Time Team’s interest, then, was sparked by these discoveries and by the urgent need to investigate the site fully before it is destroyed by irresponsible metal-detecting activity.
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