Download or read book The Pioneer Burial: A high-status Anglian warrior burial from Wollaston Northamptonshire written by Ian Meadows and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations at Wollaston Quarry, near Wellingborough, uncovered a single late 7th century grave, the Pioneer burial. The burial contained artefacts indicative of very high status, with the early to middle Saxon helmet being at the time only the fourth to have been recovered from a burial in England.