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The Conington teenager: Being ‘different’ in Anglo-Saxon England

Excavations at Conington, Cambridgeshire, uncovered the remains of a young woman who, unusually, had been laid face-down in her early medieval grave. What can this burial tell us about her life and death, and how she may have been perceived by her community? Carly Hilts reports.

Current Archaeology

September 5, 2023

Five years ago, in CA 339, we ran a feature about excavations associated with the road improvement works by National Highways (formerly Highways England) on the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon. Led by the MOLA Headland Infrastructure Consortium (MHI) and covering over 234ha, these investigations allowed archaeologists to explore 6,000 years of human history on a landscape scale. Between 2016 and 2018, over 40 separate excavations revealed sites ranging from the deserted medieval village of Houghton and an Anglo-Saxon settlement of over 50 buildings to an unusually regular Roman farmstead that may have controlled local distribution of food and other resources. The remains of a 15-year

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