Anglo-Saxon burial mounds
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Anglo-Saxon burial mounds
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An Anglo-Saxon burial mound is an accumulation of earth and stones erected over a grave or crypt during the late sixth and seventh centuries AD in Anglo-Saxon England. These burial mounds are also known as barrows or tumuli. Early Anglo-Saxon burial involved both inhumation and cremation, with burials then being deposited in cemeteries. At this time, the Anglo-Saxons adhered to a pagan religion, but as Christianity was introduced in the seventh century, it gradually became the dominant and event
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Burial mounds produced during the 6th and 7th centuries CE
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_burial_mounds
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2024-03-11T07:55:35Z
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