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

This is the plan of one of the buildings (House 28) at Sutton Courtenay.

What do you think this house would have looked like?

Various objects were found in this house including:

• iron knife
• bone spindle whorl

• fragments of antler
• decorated plate from a bone comb
• bone awl - probably used for making hole in leather
• bone heddle stick - used for making textiles

What do these objects tell us about this building?

This building does not appear to have had a hearth and there were alot of bone and antler objects found. It could be that this building was not a house but a workshop where an Anglo-Saxon boneworker made things out of bone and antler.