Anglo-Saxons honoured their dead with household objects

[Klingan]

household objects were used by our distant ancestors to honour their dead according to an expert from Chester University.

 

Combs, tweezers and razors were among the distinctive artefacts used by the Anglo-Saxons.

 

According to new research conducted by an international expert at the University of Chester, the popular perception that the early Anglo-Saxons would mark death with grandiose gestures is untrue.

 

Senior Lecturer in Archaeology Dr Howard Williams has conducted research suggesting that it was more modest items which were particularly important to those in the fifth and sixth centuries. Dr Williams, who has an international reputation as an expert in mortuary archaeology, presented his findings at the British Museum to representatives of the museum, University College London, and other professional archaeologists.

 

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