Cremation cemetery. Urns found 1742, 1836, 1837 - c 20, in diagonal lines, 2ft 6in deep. One with bronze tweezers, iron shears and miniature comb. Some in Hull Museum. 1957 excavation by Newark Museum, c 30 urns, 1ft 6in - 2ft deep, irregular layout, one not in urn. Finds include miniature bronze toilet instruments, combs, ? bronze bowl, fused glass, bronze. (1) (11)
From 1957 onwards, demolition in the area has enabled NWM and Nottm Univ to unearth many more urns and to define some of the cemetery limits. Up to and including 1970 urns found on the site totalled 367. One of the pots (No 314) is a C3/C4 Ro cremation urn. (4) (5)
The described area of this cemetery is now mostly built over. Finds are with NWM, NCM, NUM and BM. (6)
For details see (8) - cemetery probably in use throughout the pagan Anglo-Saxon period.
See L8405 for Neo finds, L3516 for Civil War defence.

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

photocopy, (1), Arch office

<1> Meaney A, 1964, A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites, p 201 (Published document). SNT913.

<2> Thoroton Society, 1954, TTS, p 5 (Published document). SNT368.

<3> Dean MJ, 1966, MOW, Archaeological Excavations - Millgate, p 16 (Published document). SNT605.

<4> Seville K, 1970, MOW, Archaeological Excavations - Newark, pp 36-7 (Published document). SNT1256.

<5> Dean MJ, 22/01/1970 , Newark Arch and Local Hist Soc Newsletter (Published document). SNT938.

<6> Colquhoun FD, 1974, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT582.

<7> Kinsley G, 1989, Newark's Archaeological Resource, App1, p2 (Unpublished document). SNT40.

<8> Kinsley G, 1989, The AS Cemetery at Millgate (Published document). SNT862.

<9> EMAB eds, 1965, East Midlands Archaeological Bulletin, p 32 (Published document). SNT159.

<10> EMAB eds, 1966, East Midlands Archaeological Bulletin, p 44 (Published document). SNT160.

<11> EMAB eds, 1958, East Midlands Archaeological Bulletin, p 9 (Published document). SNT152.