Spectacular Anglo-Saxon burial uncovered – here’s what it tells us about women in seventh-century England
Toby Martin, University of Oxford A village with the Old English name “Filthy Pool” wasn’t an auspicious location to discover one of the most spectacular burials of the Anglo Saxon period. Nevertheless, excavations by the Museum of London Archaeology at Harpole, Northamptonshire, in England’s Midlands, have uncovered an astonishing Christian burial of the