Artefacts including copper-alloy brooches, wrist clasps, strings of amber and glass beads, small iron knives and silver pennies were discovered. © Suffolk County Council
Posted on 09/21/2020 2:37:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A "nationally significant" Anglo-Saxon cemetery with 200 graves dating back to the 7th Century has been revealed.
The graves were uncovered in Oulton, near Lowestoft in Suffolk, ahead of construction of a housing development.
The burial ground contained the remains of men, women and children, as well as artefacts including brooches, small iron knives and silver pennies...
A spokesman said the site "lies within the Kingdom of the East Angles, made famous by the royal burial ground at nearby Sutton Hoo".
Sutton Hoo, discovered in 1939, included two cemeteries from the 6th to 7th centuries and a ship burial full of treasures believed to be the final resting place of King Raedwald.
Many of the skeletons are only visible as "sand-silhouettes", a delicate form of preservation.
The site appears to contain several generations of a small farming community and the county council's archaeological service said the excavation of such cemeteries in their entirety was rare in England, which made it "nationally significant"...
Andrew Peachey, of Archaeological Solutions Ltd, which carried out the excavations, said the remains of 17 cremations and 191 burials were "painstakingly excavated".
"Due to the highly acidic soil the skeletons had mostly vanished and were luckily preserved as fragile shapes and shadows in the sand," he said...
The remains have now been fully excavated ahead of the Persimmon Homes Anglia housing development.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Artefacts including copper-alloy brooches, wrist clasps, strings of amber and glass beads, small iron knives and silver pennies were discovered. © Suffolk County Council
Bkmk
1. After countless movies, and the consequences of doing so, I would think most people would shy away from building houses on old graves.
2. If anyone has not seen the British comedy/drama TV show Detectorists, they should really look into it. It deals loosely with this kind of thing, and it’s only two seasons.
Excellent post, Civ. There are some good links at the BBC site, including the Syrian bitumen one.
Thanks, and I agree, the Syrian bitumen in England one looked interesting, but it kinda rings a bell, perhaps we've had a topic here, I'm just too lazy to look for it..
I've watched part of an episode of it, technically I suppose I've watched several episodes, but I konked out in the opening minutes of the first one. :^)
When I die, I want to be buried with:
One of those pine tree car air fresheners.
One of those little popout dealies that lets you know the turkey is done.
A troll doll.
Let em dig me up and try to figure all that out.
That’s right. You’ll get lumped right in with me.
Some archeologist will be on tv saying,
“Apparently, there was mass mental illness in 2020.”
the older I get the more I am moving toward cremation, I just don’t want someone digging me up in a few hundred years and putting me in a wall or a museum somewhere.
When I die world
Bury me upside down
Why you may ask
So the whole world
Can kiss my ass.
Oh, and put me on the FR Memorial page.
5.56mm
Archaeologists believe they have found the site of the royal settlement of the Anglo-Saxon kings of East Anglia.
A village at Rendlesham in Suffolk, which would have included a royal hall, was mentioned by the historian the Venerable Bede in the 8th Century.
Suffolk's county archaeologists have been studying a 120-acre (50 hectare) area about 5 miles (8km) from the Sutton Hoo burial site.
An exhibition of some of the coins and jewellery will open this week...
The Venerable Bede mentioned the "king's village" at "Rendlaesham" in his 8th Century book An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Angus Wainwright, archaeologist with the National Trust which owns Sutton Hoo, said: "It's very likely it's King Raedwald's palace and maybe where his descendents lived as well because it's got a longer life than Sutton Hoo.
"Whereas Sutton Hoo is all about death, this village site is about what craftsmen and ordinary people were getting up to in their daily lives."
...The studies began in 2008 after the owner of the land in Rendlesham alerted Suffolk County Council to illegal looting by people with metal detectors.Anglo-Saxon 'kings' village' discovered in Rendlesham | BBC News | Published 10 March 2014
The Suffolk site was excavated in 1939. Gold and garnet jewellery, silverware and ceremonial armour were discovered.
The small black objects scattered among the 7th Century finds were believed to be pine tar used for boat maintenance.
British Museum and Aberdeen University experts have revealed they are bitumen and said they demonstrated the "far-reaching" Anglo-Saxon trade network.
They believe the petrochemical scraps should now be viewed as "exotic grave goods which can be counted among the other treasures from the burial".
The discovery was made when the fragments were included in an EU-funded research project studying the preservation of tars associated with ancient boats.
Pauline Burger, who analysed the material while on a Marie Curie Fellowship at the museum, said the result was "completely unexpected".
The experts do not know if the fragments were part of a larger object whose other materials did not survive or the remains of small objects.
British Museum senior scientist Rebecca Stacey said: "Either way, it rewrites our understanding of the finds and shows that more than 75 years after its first discovery there is still much to be learnt about this remarkable burial assemblage".Sutton Hoo bitumen links Syria with Anglo-Saxon England | BBC News | Published December 2016
They won’t be wrong, either. :^D
My training ship docked in Callao Peru. I went to Lima and visited the cathedral. They had Pizarro under glass.
If you stay fairly anonymous, you may have a choice.
I've had Pizarro under glass, tasted like chicken. It was served with a side of lima beans.
The remains will at this cemetery will likely be preserved and to some extent studied (DNA, isotopes), and not displayed anywhere. The artifacts will be displayed, probably in a newly built or newly renovated spot. Hopefully they won't (or maybe will) uncover more stuff when digging that foundation. :^)
Time Team bump.
Time Team was a popular show in the U.K. that was on for 20 years. If you are interested in U.K. archaeology the old episodes are on Youtube, hosted by Tony Robinson, before he was Knighted. Very interesting show - to me at any rate.
Some Youtube channels have good quality, some don’t. Reijer Zaaijer channel has the best quality broadcast.
the older I get the more I am moving toward cremation, I just don’t want someone digging me up in a few hundred years and putting me in a wall or a museum somewhere.
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Wifey and I have signed the paperwork to dedicate our bodies to the Maryland Medical Schools through the State Anatomy Board.
the older I get the more I am moving toward cremation, I just don’t want someone digging me up in a few hundred years and putting me in a wall or a museum somewhere.
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For a really interesting read about cremation practices and procedures get a copy of Caitlin Doughty’s wonderful book entitled SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES. You will not be disappointed!
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