• Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery is a place of burial that was used from the sixth to the eighth centuries CE. It is located adjacent to the village of...
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  • context that the Finglesham cemetery was in use. Kent has a wealth of Early Medieval funerary archaeology. The earliest excavation of Anglo-Saxon Kentish graves...
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    Archaeology. List of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery Mill Hill Anglo-Saxon cemetery Welch 2007, p. 189...
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  • Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery is a place of burial that was used in the seventh and eighth centuries CE. It is located close to the hamlet of Polhill, near...
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  • Anglo-Saxon cemeteries have been found in England, Wales and Scotland. The burial sites date primarily from the fifth century to the seventh century AD...
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  • Magic in Anglo-Saxon England (Old English: galdorcræft) refers to the belief and practice of magic by the Anglo-Saxons between the fifth and eleventh...
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    traditional religion may be reflected in grave goods from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Finglesham that have been proposed to date to the period of the heathen...
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    and west. List of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery Tester 1968, pp. 125–126...
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  • of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery Fordcroft Anglo-Saxon cemetery Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery Parfitt...
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    alive to sell him for ransom. Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery Kings of Kent Kentish Royal Legend Updown early medieval cemetery Updown Girl White horse of...
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    location of the Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery, site of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon archaeology find known as "Finglesham man," as described in 1965 by Sonia...
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    an origin in the time of Anglo-Saxon England gained credence after the 1964 discovery at Finglesham in Kent of an Anglo-Saxon buckle depicting a figure...
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  • Updown early medieval cemetery. Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery – a nearby cemetery also excavated by Hawkes Polhill Anglo-Saxon cemetery Welch 2008, p. 3...
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  • Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (category Anglo-Saxon archaeologists)
    archaeologist specialising in early Anglo-Saxon archaeology. She led excavations on Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Finglesham in Kent and Worthy Park in Hampshire...
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  • Roman villa at Cox Green, Berkshire, England. Excavations at Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery begin under the direction of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (completed...
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  • depicting a man holding a spear in each hand is discovered at Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery during excavations led by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes. May 31 – The...
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    Eadbald of Kent (category Anglo-Saxon warriors)
    Chadwick Hawkes, "Finglesham. A Cemetery in East Kent" and "The Archaeology of Conversion: Cemeteries", both in Campbell, The Anglo-Saxons, pp. 24–25 and...
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    Taplow Barrow (category Anglo-Saxon sites in England)
    Constructed in the seventh century, when the region was part of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it contained the remains of a deceased individual and their...
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    Michael Swanton (category Anglo-Saxon studies scholars)
    historian, linguist, archaeologist and literary critic, specialising in the Anglo-Saxon period and its Old English literature. Born in Bermondsey, in the East...
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