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    The Trumpington bed burial is an early Anglo-Saxon burial of a young woman, dating to the mid-7th century, that was excavated in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire...
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    In 2012 archaeologists working on the Trumpington Meadows site discovered a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon bed burial for a young woman aged about 16 years old...
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  • least two sites (Loftus and Trumpington), a grubenhaus (sunken floored building) has been excavated close to the bed burial, and it is possible that the...
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    Anglo-Saxon Trumpington bed burial held a 60cm by 155cm bed with pieces of looped wrought iron, which may have held the bed base.[1][2] The beds are thought...
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    screen from Winchester Cathedral. A display on the Anglo-Saxon Trumpington bed burial is on the ground floor. In 1770, after returning to England from...
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  • pagan burial treasures, in some ways the artefacts bear more resemblance to them than to Christian sites. Sutton Hoo, Suffolk Trumpington bed burial Newton...
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    A pectoral cross worn by the 7th-century female teenager of the Trumpington bed burial...
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  • camp in Żagań (present-day Poland) by a British team. Summer – Trumpington bed burial near Cambridge, England. Fortified early medieval settlement near...
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  • coffins or were lined with stones. High status burials, often held burial furniture, predominantly burial beds. Grave goods were often placed with the body...
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    its boundaries were extended to include Chesterton, Cherry Hinton, and Trumpington. The railway came to Cambridge in 1845 after initial resistance, with...
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    G. A. Henty (category People from Trumpington)
    born in Trumpington, near Cambridge but spent some of his childhood in Canterbury. He was a sickly child who had to spend long periods in bed. During...
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  • John Pendlebury (category Burials at Suda Bay War Cemetery)
    He is also commemorated on the Trumpington War Memorial and on his wife's headstone in the churchyard at Trumpington, a village on the southern outskirts...
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    John Overall (bishop) (category Burials at Norwich Cathedral)
    ordained a priest at Lincoln. He was briefly, in 1591–1592, vicar of Trumpington, a college living just outside Cambridge. In 1592, Sir Thomas Heneage...
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    Today I am going to amuse the public by riding an 86-inch bicycle to Trumpington and back. There is a little scale of steps up it, up which I am helped...
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