Among the 'incredible' finds made at the site are a set of Stone Age flint tools and a 'beautiful' Anglo-Saxon gold pendant.
Archaeologists have unearthed around 19,000 artifacts, dating from prehistory to the early medieval period, at a 'once-in-a-decade' site in the United Kingdom.The finds were uncovered during an excavation at the Calthorpe Gardens residential development, which is on the outskirts of the historic market town of Banbury, southern England, house builder Orbit Homes announced in a press release.
'The grave goods are astounding, just in the volume, their style—there are so many different types of material,' Janice McLeish, director of post-excavation services with Border Archaeology , the consultancy in charge of the excavation, said in an Orbit Homes video.'Within the assemblage, we've got glass beads, we've got metalwork, we've got some pottery. It's just a really remarkable assemblage to have on one site.
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