Essay: Spectacular Anglo-Saxon burial uncovered – here’s what it tells us about women in seventh-century England
TOBY MARTIN, a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Oxford, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what the discovery of the seventh century burial of a Christian woman in England’s Midlands reveals about wealthy Christian women of the period…
Dig at UK housing site may have yielded grave of early female Christian religious leader
London, UK AP A 1,300-year-old gold and gemstone necklace found on the site of a new housing development marks the grave of a powerful woman who may have been an early Christian religious leader in Britain, archaeologists said Tuesday. Experts say the necklace, uncovered with other items near Northampton in central England, is part of […]