The Saxons were coming! A tiny sword stud found under a shop rewrites Welsh history ; Development threatens site of discovery
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AT BARELY a centimetre across and almost unrecognisable after centuries underground, it may not look much, but could shed light on an almost unknown era of Welsh history.
The discovery of a sword stud beneath shops in Monmouth, made public for the first time in today's Western Mail, could be evidence of an Anglo-Saxon period settlement.See the full content of this document
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The Saxons were coming! A tiny sword stud found under a shop rewrites Welsh history ; Development threatens site of discovery
But now there are concerns the site where it was found may be destroyed by development.
And radio carbon dating on bones from postholes beneath the buildings suggest that some timber posts were removed in the middle of the 10th century and others in the early 11th, suggesting they may have pu...See the full content of this document
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