[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Rodney King]

How long does someone have to be in the ground before it is ok to dig him up?

[JB in Whitefish]

Who SAYS you can't take it with you....???

[uglybiker]

...probably a prince or a powerful warlord from the ancient kingdom of Mercia.

Where one is not likely to find any coconuts!

[Herakles]

"The priceless Coptic bowl, which was made more than 1,300 years ago in the Mediterranean, has led historical experts to conclude they had discovered the grave of an extremely wealthy Anglo-Saxon – probably a prince or a powerful warlord from the ancient kingdom of Mercia."

I personally would have been more impressed if they had found a set of big brass balls.

[Kommodor]

Oh, snap.

Next thing you'll see it on Ebay claiming that they dug up King Arthur and it's the Holy Grail...

(or maybe not...)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

Mercia was the big 'un before the emergence of Wessex as the leader of the resistance against the (continued) invasion by the Danes. Alfred (the only English king known as "the Great") battled the Danes over the Danegeld extortion. Eventually Svein Forkbeard spent 20 years preparing an invasion force (some of the old barracks sites and such have been excavated) then died, leaving the task of the conquest to his son, Knut -- the eventual King Canute of England. That dynasty didn't take root.

Mercia's King Offa built an earthwork along his frontier with Wales, known as Offa's Dyke. Recent research has shown that a much smaller surviving work, Wat's Dyke in Wales, wasn't built in response, but in fact antedates Offa's by centuries.

But anyway, this guy, whatever the name, wasa pagan, so...

Give us back our bones, pagans tell museums
The Guardian | Monday February 5, 2007 | James Randerson
Posted on 02/06/2007 9:59:52 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1780050/posts

[GoLightly]

I thought pagans mostly did pyres instead of burials & when people were buried, they were buried with tools of their trade.

How do they know this guy wasn't a powerful priest?

[Sam Ketcham]

"She said: “It’s amazing to think people have grown vegetables and gone to school nearby without realising there is such an incredible piece of history under their feet." Where did she think the fertilizer came from?