More information : Anglo-Saxon burials discovered in 1868 in a field
called Cross House Meadow TL 9352 7005(2), where a pair of
cruciform brooches were found on the shoulders of a skeleton.
Previously in 1856, labourers dug up the famous Ixworth gold
pectoral cross with cloisonne garnet work found with the upper
plate of a gold jewelled filigree brooch and 5 bosses, and in
1871 a bronze plate brooch with horse like motifs, a sword, a
spearhead, knife and 3 shield bosses (2 with handles) were also
found in the same field. The 7th century Ixworth Cross is in
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. (Meaney, listing a large number of
finds wrongly interprets them all as belonging to this site.
Those that do not, are shown under TL 97 SW 22). (1-3)
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