The recent announcement of the discovery of a 1,600 year old Anglo Saxon cemetery near Wendover in the Chilterns should both fascinate and thrill us. For it is yet another reminder of the way our racial forefathers lived and died in the hills, forests and vales that still surround us. The archaeologists involved in the dig, people like Dr. Rachel Wood of the Fusion Team, proclaiming ‘hugely significant’ and original finds like toothpicks, tweezers and eye-liner amongst the 138 graves containing 141 men, women and children.
For some great background on Anglo-Saxon society, check out this post over at Historical Vault 21 on Anglo-Saxon Kings.
