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 A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE Yorkshire. The exploration of British barrows on the Wolds has incidentally brought to light a number of secondary burials that must be assigned to the Anglo-Saxon period. The absence of ornaments renders a more precise date inadmissible, but with the Mercian kingdom the political history of Warwickshire may be said to begin ; and where the pagan relics of the grave cease to appear, the written page takes up the record. 268