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4 unusual facts about Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell


Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell

A copy of it was made, in yew wood, and was played to accompany a funeral song sung for King SÇ£berht in Anglo-Saxon and English in a church in Southend.

In the autumn of 2003, in preparation for a road-widening scheme, an archaeological survey was carried out on a plot of land to the north-east of Priory Park in Prittlewell.

The acidic sandy soil had completely dissolved the body's bones, and any other bone in the tomb, but some pieces of human teeth were found, but too far affected by decay for DNA to be found in them.

The Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell is a high-status Anglo-Saxon tomb excavated at Prittlewell, north of Southend-on-Sea, in the English county of Essex.



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