This handmade pottery urn (known as a Buckelurne) is similar to a group of fifty discovered by the physician Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) in sandy soil less than three feet deep in a field outside Walsingham. The urns contained bones and small artefacts and was excavated in Great Walsingham on a site in 1658 - believed to be located somewhere to the north of the Hindringham road.

Many other Early Saxon objects have since been unearthed including a girdle hanger, shown below (T-shaped piece of bronze imitating a key and hung from a chain or belt around the waist). Unfortunately the location of the site is uncertain

Excavations at the Priory in Little Walsingham have uncovered a single Middle Saxon grave. This has been interpreted as an earlier Saxon religious centre on the same site but the evidence for this seems uncertain. The site of a possible Late Saxon church in the parish has also been identified although no evidence can be seen of this from aerial photographs of the site. An early wooden church would be hard to identify without excavation however.

More circumstantial evidence has suggested that there was a Late Saxon coin mint somewhere in Walsingham. The inscription ON WALSI on two Late Saxon coins has been interpreted as meaning from Walsingham. More clear evidence of Late Saxon activity is provided by the Late Saxon box mount (a 'fitting' that is fixed onto a larger object) found in the parish.