An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in Lincolnshire
7 January 2001
Finds and photo gallery

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The digger's nightmare 1: tightly compacted clay makes hard going even for the mechanical digger.

The digger's nightmare 2: tightly compacted clay makes hard going even for the human digger.

Bones specialist Margaret Cox

Margaret Cox reassembles one of the skeletons.

Second-century Roman pottery fragment, found by Phil and Stewart fieldwalking in the ploughed field

Carenza finds her first bones

Phil's trench (Trench 1) from above

The complex jumble of burials that is Phil's trench

Mick uncovering one of the skeletons in Trench 1

One of the skeletons in Trench 1

Victor sketching the skeleton

Cleaning up the skeleton

Phil cleaning up the skeleton

Phil tidies up the trench and skeleton

The skeleton, cleaned up and recorded

The string of beads before cleaning. They would have stretched between two brooches across the chest of the wearer.

The geophysics results showing the lines of Roman settlement with individual farmsteads lying off a main street

The geophysics results over the site

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