Church of Holy Cross and St. Mary, Quainton, Buckinghamshire Archaeological Watching Brief Report

In June 2004 Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried out an archaeological watching brief, and subsequently an excavation, at the Church of Holy Cross and St. Mary, Quainton, Buckinghamshire (NGR SP 749 201) The work was commissioned by Architects Design Partnership LLP on behalf of the Parochial Church Council in advance of the construction of a new north porch with a WC. The watching brief revealed a post-medieval brick-lined shaft grave and gravestone, twenty-fives graves and an assemblage of pottery mostly of Saxo-Norman or medieval date. The remains of six mostly complete skeletons were exhumed for osteological analysis