The village of Exning in the most westerly part of Suffolk is a small settlement appended to the north-west of the larger town of Newmarket.
Despite its modern inferiority to Newmarket, it is understood to have been an important location in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Statements in the Liber Eliensis or 'Book of Ely' suggest that St thelthryth, or Etheldreda, the daughter of King Anna of East Anglia, who would become Abbess of Ely, was born here.
This volume describes the archaeological excavati.
British Archaeological Reports (oxford) Ltd A 7th century anglo-saxon cemetery at burwell road, exning, suffolk, paperback/andrew a. s. newton
