Prittlewell
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Here are the headlines from an article in The Guardian:- “….Red Lady to Richard III: Britain’s 10 best buried treasures – ranked! “….How does ‘Britain’s Tutankhamun’, a Saxon prince’s tomb found near an Aldi in Southend-on-Sea, fit in with the UK’s great archaeological finds?….” To read the full list of these ten discoveries, go to…
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In 2003, a Saxon burial in an intact burial chamber was unearthed between an Aldi shop and a pub in Southend. Clearly an important person, almost certainly royalty, the items in the grave make it the earliest Christian royal burial in England. Now, 16 years on, with conservation and studies complete, many of the items…
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