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Archaeologists find 1,300-year-old necklace of international importance in England

The necklace is a rectangular pendant with a cross in the center, which is the largest and most complex piece of jewelry. | Font: Facebook Museum of London Archeology

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Archaeologists from the London Museum of Archeology (Mola) found gold medieval necklace1,300 years old, in a tomb located near Northampton, England, which is of “international significance”, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

The jewel, dated to 630-670 AD, has at least 30 pendants of Roman coins, gold, garnet, glass and semi-precious stones and, according to experts, belonged to a woman of high social status. .

“Flashes of Gold Coming Out of the Ground”

necklace it was discovered during excavations last summer at a housing estate in Harpole, west of Northampton.

“When we started seeing the first flashes of gold coming out of the ground, we knew it was something important, but we had no idea how special it would be,” team leader Levente-Bense Balas told the BBC. , of five archaeologists from the aforementioned museum who are analyzing the finds.

Finding a gem in England
The necklace was found during excavations last summer at a residential complex in Harpole, west of Northampton. | Font: Museum of London Archaeology

Balazs believes the experts are “lucky to be able to use modern analytical methods on the finds and the surrounding burial to gain a deeper understanding of this man’s life and last rites.”

necklace it has a rectangular pendant with a cross motif in the center as the largest and most complex element of the decoration.

Two decorated pots and a copper plate were also found at the burial site.

The experts indicated that the skeleton was already completely decomposed, except for tiny fragments of tooth enamel, although, from the combination of various finds at the burial site, they believed that it was a woman of high social status, such as a Christian leader. or even someone from the royal family.

(As reported by EFE)

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