Finds from the Guilford Road estate point to the presence of an Anglo Saxon burial ground.

Two early 5th century burial groups were recovered from just outside the north-east corner of the town walls in 1971 & 1972. One group consisted of a cruciform brooch, two rings and a fragment of brooch spring. The second a cruciform brooch, seven beads, a silver finger ring, a siliqua of Valens pierced twice for suspension and a fragment of skull bone belonging to a Woman of 50-70 years of Age. <1><2>