Student’s Lucky Find Worth £145,000 Is Rewriting Anglo-Saxon History

[rangerrebew]

The gold pendant found in the soil.
8 December, 2017 - 18:50 Alicia McDermott
Student’s Lucky Find Worth £145,000 Is Rewriting Anglo-Saxon History


A student in Norfolk probably never imagined that his discovery of a female skeleton wearing a pendant could rewrite Anglo Saxon history – but researchers say that the “exquisite” gold piece is doing just that.

According to The Telegraph , “The find of the female skeleton wearing a pendant of gold imported from Sri Lanka and coins bearing the marks of a continental king is prompting a fundamental reassessment of the seats of power in Anglo Saxon England.”

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/student-s-lucky-find-worth-145000-rewriting-anglo-saxon-history-009248

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gold imported from Sri Lanka

That sort of global trade at that time always stuns me.

[truth_seeker]

--Item got to Britain during Roman times
--Silk Road
--Alexander the Great traveled far to the East
--Unknown travelers from the East to the West
--Possibly even Vikings, who sailed down the rivers to Russia to serve as guards for the Byzantine Empire

[Suppressed]

--Item got to Britain during Roman times
--Silk Road
--Alexander the Great traveled far to the East
--Unknown travelers from the East to the West
--Possibly even Vikings, who sailed down the rivers to Russia to serve as guards for the Byzantine Empire








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I know.  It still stuns me.