Anglo-Saxon Urns from North Elmham, Norfolk

In 1937 I illustrated and described in this Journal two Anglo-Saxon urns from the collection of our Fellow, the late Mr. V. B. Crowther-Beynon. The urns, which had once belonged to Captain Arthur Trollope of Lincoln, had been rescued in fragments by Mr. Crowther-Beynon together with other debris from the Captain's collection when the latter's daughters vacated the rectory at Edith Weston, Rutland, on the death of their brother, Rev. Andrew Trollope, in 1896. No record remained of their original findspot, but in view of Arthur Trollope's Lincolnshire associations we thought it safe to publish them as coming from that county. Though Mr. Crowther-Beynon was rightly more cautious, I was myself rash enough to suggest that they might have come from Lincoln itself since another Anglo-Saxon urn which Trollope possessed (now in Lincoln Museum) was believed to have been found in the Eastgate not far from his house in that city

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