The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Harford Farm consisted of two groups of late
7th-century inhumation burials surviving only as stains within a
prehistoric barrow cemetery. Of the thirty-one graves grouped on a bluff
overlooking the river, most contained either unaccompanied burials or
burials with just knife and buckle; but three, all probably female, were
lavishly equipped. The fifteen graves further south, loosely arranged
around a prehistoric barrow, were mostly 'knife and buckle' burials, but
one was more richly furnished. The character of the grave-goods and the
manner of burial are typical of 'late or 'Final Phase cemeteries.
Although similarity of grave-goods suggests that the two groups of
graves were contemporary, there may have been some significant
differences in burial rite, coffins predominating in one group and
burials in the other group resting on mats of organic material.