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7th century Anglo-Saxon burial suggests pagan cult
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/83df4ff3-0d4b-42fc-918f-232a0193ba78/88746A77-4947-48A1-B31E-710164F58C2D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailyindia.com/show/231110.php/7th-century-Anglo-Saxon-burial-suggests-pagan-cult" href="http://www.dailyindia.com/show/231110.php/7th-century-Anglo-Saxon-burial-suggests-pagan-cult" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailyindia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyindia.com/show/231110.php/7th-century-Anglo-Saxon-burial-suggests-pagan-cult">Washington, April 12: Archaeologists have excavated a seventh century grave from the center of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in England, which has revealed a woman's jewelry-draped body, leading scientists to believe that she might have lead a pagan cult.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyindia.com/show/231110.php/7th-century-Anglo-Saxon-burial-suggests-pagan-cult">According to a report in Discovery News, the jewelry, which was found in a grave in Yorkshire, included a large shield-shaped pendant, the layout and location of the cemetery as well as excavated weaponry, such as knives and a fine langseax (a single-edged Anglo-Saxon sword).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyindia.com/show/231110.php/7th-century-Anglo-Saxon-burial-suggests-pagan-cult">These findings have lead scientists to believe that the woman found in the grave might have been a member of royalty, who led a pagan cult at a time when Christianity was just starting to take root in the region.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyindia.com/show/231110.php/7th-century-Anglo-Saxon-burial-suggests-pagan-cult"><DIV>"Her bed burial is stridently pagan, a sort of rare, female equivalent of ship burials, as she is laid out on a vehicle to deliver her to the afterworld," said archaeologist Mike Pitts.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88746A77-4947-48A1-B31E-710164F58C2D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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