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Now that the event is over here is a video from Steve Sherlock talking about the find. It has been a fantastic week, thanks to everyone involved.

Here’s the third posting from Steve Sherlock. This is copyright material so please treat accordingly. These pictures will be available in a book from Kirkleatham Museum quiet soon.

Grave 43

Grave 43 was situated next to the bed burial (grave 42) and also contained a spectacular group of objects that are unique to the site. It is thought that the gold, silver and glass jewellery in this grave was worn on a fine thread, possibly cotton, although nothing of this material survived. The jewellery was hung in a pattern that was repeated on each side of a centrepiece of a triangular-shaped gold pendant set with an interesting glass bead. On each side of the pendant was a biconical gold wire bead, followed by a silver sphere or bulla, followed by a silver bead with a pattern of decoration copying the gold wire and then a glass bead at each end. The grave also contained a further gold wire bead and a silver annular brooch. This brooch may have fastened part of the headdress, sometimes called a coif.

This video features a poem by John Stockwell of Loftus Community Forum and exhibits by St Joseph’s, Handale and Hummersea Primary Schools. Tomorrow the Anglo Saxon Quiz !

Here is the presentation from Skinningrove History Group.

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Here’s the second posting from Steve Sherlock. This is copyright material so please treat accordingly. These pictures will be available in a book from Kirkleatham Museum quiet soon.

Plan of grave 29 to show the location of the sword within the grave

A poem from John Stockwell plus a downloadable Anglo-Saxon Quiz !

Also another posting from Steve Sherlock

And the display by Skinningrove History group

Steve has promised to share a picture and some info with us each day. These will be part of a larger collection available in a book obtainable in the first instance from Kirkleatham Museum. This is copyright material please treat it accordingly

Beads with coins from grave 21 after conservation, positioned as found

NB. The coins are Iron Age (pre-Roman) and therefore 600 years old when adapted into jewellery in the c7th.

It was so busy yesterday that it was hard to get pictures of the exhibits. Here are some taken this morning before visitors started to arrive.

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