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  • Saxon find in Lyminge has historians partying like it's 599 [Remains of great hall]

    10/31/2012 3:32:28 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    Guardian ^ | Tuesday 30 October 2012 | Maev Kennedy
    The foundations of a spectacular Anglo-Saxon feasting hall, a place where a king and his warriors would have gathered for days of drinking and eating -- as vividly described in the poem Beowulf -- have been found inches below the village green of Lyminge in Kent. There was one last celebration by the light of flickering flames at the site, 1,300 years after the hall was abandoned, as archaeologists marked the find by picking out the outline of the hall in candles, lighting up the end-of-excavation party. Heaps of animal bones buried in pits around the edge of the hall...