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Thu 5 Feb, 2004 09:54 pm
Archeaologists found a tomb of an a-s king last year. The tomb was in perfect condition before the excavation so all artifacts were there and pretty much in their place.
I find it odd that any piece of England hasn't been turned under at least once in the last 1,400 years. I wonder why I feel that way.... Anyway, the link is below.
The Guardian
Does anyone know anything of the history of Southend-on-Sea/Prittlewell? How about what it's like today?
This guy was from the Dark Ages, pretty cool.
From a brief google search, it looks pretty industrialized.
I keep thinking he was a teenaged king, like Tut, and realized it was the "14" at the beginning, nevermind that it's actually one thousand four hundred.
Niiiice artifacts.
Hope he doesn't get mad.
Nah! Sucker's dead, isn't he?
What a find. The glass is gorgeous.
Did they find him or just his tomb?
Individual wrote:Did they find him or just his tomb?
Him (at least, what's left), and the tomb :wink:
What makes you thinking, sozobe, he was a teenage king? (Remember, people died at about 30, perhaps 35 in those days.)
There have been several Anglo-Saxon kingsdoms in England, and East Anglia was settled at least by two different German(ic) tribes, who were later united by the Swedish Wuffing dynasty whose burial ground was at Sutton Hoo.
Some nice online reading re earlier Britsih history:
ASSESSING THE ANGLO-SAXON INVASIONS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY
Eh, and the BBC shows some more nice pictures for you girls :wink:
Hidden treasures of Saxon burial chamber
The last time I was in England, we stopped at a little museum in Yorkshire near the Roman wall. It was a slow day and the docent gave us a lot of time and attention. One of the back-room treasures had just been turned in two days ago. A local gardener, extending his boundaries, had uncovered several fragments of terra-cotta, Roman army issue dinner ware.
Also, thanks to the class system and the rights of the lords of the realm, a lot of England, Scotland and Wales is under private ownership--out of bounds for excavation.
Remember a few years ago when the foundations of the Globe Theatre, nutshells and all was uncovered in London, South of the Themes?
Well, such things, Noddy descripted, happen quite often all over Europe.
Close to my native town, they found several Saxon princess' tombs within the last 20 years.
And 30 yards away from the main entrance of one of the (medieval) churches, they discovered a Frankish pottery from the 6th century (and thus regional history had had to be re-written, since no-one though the Francs to have settled so much eastwards at that time).
And since ten years, we finally have the correct place of the battle at the Teutoburg forest from 9 AD.
Walter - thanks for the info and links!
That is one of the worst maps I've ever seen.
They didn't have our technology way back then..........
Child of the Light wrote:That is one of the worst maps I've ever seen.
(I had a look in my own three history atlasses - can't see a difference.)
The map just caught my eye with its.....oddness.
Child of Light:
Oddness = Oldness? The past took place before the present happened.
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