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Elite Iron Age Graves Near Chelmsford Yield Wine Amphorae and Rare Imported Glass
Archaeologists near Chelmsford in Essex have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery containing the cremated remains of more than 100 people, including five individuals buried with imported wine vessels metal objects and one of the earliest glass bowls known in Britain. Most of the cemetery dates to the first century AD, when communities in southeastern Britain…
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A Rare Medieval Seal with a Roman Chariot Motif Was Found in Essex
A chance metal-detecting discovery in southeastern England has brought to light an object that quietly bridges two distant worlds of European history. In rural Essex, a rare medieval silver seal has been found bearing a finely engraved Roman-era gemstone depicting a racing chariot — an image originally carved more than a thousand years before the…