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February 07, 2004
Prittlewell
Remains from a recently unearthed burial chamber of a Saxon king have gone on display at the Museum of London. Glass jars found in the burial are particularly lovely and this is the first I have read of a custom of leaving gold foil crosses in a grave.
"This is extremely significant because it is so rare to find an Anglo-Saxon burial chamber, let alone one that is so well preserved. To find an intact chamber grave and a moment genuinely frozen in time is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery," Ian Blair, senior archaeologist on the dig said. "This will open new windows on our understanding of that period. You can draw arrows all over Europe and the near east tracing the origins of the grave goods. ... The fact that copper-alloy bowls were still hanging from hooks in the walls of the chamber, where they had been placed nearly 1,400 years ago, is a memory that I'm sure will remain with all of us forever," he added.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 7, 2004 08:08 AM