January
14
/ 2026
Archaeologists working ahead of construction at the England's Sizewell C nuclear power project have uncovered a nationally significant early medieval cemetery, including a standout “princely” grave in which a fully harnessed horse was buried alongside two people. The discovery, revealed during preparatory works for the Sizewell Link Road, is being described as part of an elite burial tradition associated with famous East Anglian sites like Sutton Hoo reports BBC News. The Magnificent Treasures of Sutton Hoo, The Final Resting Place of Anglo-Saxon Royals Anglo-Saxon Burial in England Is Compared to King Tut's Tomb A Barrow Cemetery with a High-Status “Horse-and-Rider” Message The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries
