Archaeologists working on a site at Harpole in Northamptonshire have uncovered a spectacular Anglo-Saxon necklace in what had been the burial of a woman of high status.
The BBC News website has a report on the discovery. It is dated to 630/40-670/80 and has at its centre a panel decorated with a cross between Roman ( or Byzantine? ) coins and garnets. It would not look out of place today as a striking and fashionable piece of jewellery.
A not dissimilar necklace was found in 1876 at Desborough which lies to the north east of Northampton. That necklace is now in the British Museum and the report has a link to the BM Catalogue for that item.
The illustrated article can be read at Medieval necklace found near Northampton 'internationally important'
CNN also has a report about the discovery with additional information and that report can be seen at Stunning necklace found at burial site of powerful Anglo-Saxon woman
Wikipedia now has a report about the Harpole burial at Harpole bed burial
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