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Rare Anglo-Saxon Coffins Discovered

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of more than 80 rare 'plank-lined' graves and tree-trunk coffins in a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Norfolk.

This cemetery dates from the 7th-9th century AD and has huge potential to reveal the story of the early Christian community who once lived there.

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An archaeologist carefully excavates Anglo-Saxon human remains and a dug-out coffin

    • An archaeologist carefully excavates Anglo-Saxon human remains and a dug-out coffin
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Sir Terry Farrell's Postmodernist Comyn Ching in London listed

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