June
20
/ 2023
Who Was This Anglo-Saxon Girl? Face of Trumpington Cross Bed Burial Revealed In 2011, a mid-7th century Anglo-Saxon Christian burial of a 16-year-old teenage girl in a village had turned out to be one of the earliest burial sites of such a nature in Britain. What made it particularly special was that it was a rare combination of burial practices – a ‘ bed burial’ along with a captivating gold and garnet cross (the ‘Trumpington Cross’), which represents an early Christian artifact of great historical value. Now, archaeologists have used the wonders of modern technology to reconstruct her face, just through analysis of her skull, and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) in Cambridge will be putting this on
