Anglo-Saxon Settlement And Cemetery Complex Excavated In England
A vast Anglo-Saxon settlement and cemetery complex has been discovered in England that is being called a “one of a kind” discovery. Not, however, because the site was found laden with gold and silver, but because the thousands of recovered artifacts speak of the day to day lives of people who have inhabited the region since 4000 BC.
Whenever new construction is green lit in the UK, prior to any digging, archaeologists survey the site for any signs of ancient habitation. These must be tense times where the construction teams are praying nothing is found that might cause delays, while at the same time the archaeologists are dreaming of finding ancient objects. This was recently the case at Overstone Leys in Northamptonshire, England, where ahead of a new housing development project a team of archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (