HS2 ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND ANGLO-SAXON BURIAL GROUND CONTAINING NEARLY 140 GRAVES
Archaeologists working on an HS2 site have discovered a burial ground containing nearly 140 graves, including a skeleton with a weapon still embedded in it. The site, in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, contained 138 graves, with 141 regular burials and five cremation burials, which makes it one of the largest Anglo-Saxon burial grounds ever uncovered in Britain. A skeleton, thought to be male, was found with a sharp iron object embedded into […]