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Article: The Saxon Princess; Finally showing her face after 1,500 years, a rich royal whose kingdom was a collection of huts.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2004
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Byline: ANDREW LEVY
HER simple existence is one a modern-day princess would scorn.
Yet 1,500 years since she drew her last breath, the importance of this woman's privileged life, and death, reaches us down the ages.
And thanks to an anthropologist's skill, we can finally see her face.
As the consort or daughter of a warrior chieftain, this Anglo-Saxon princess held sway over a tribe of 40 people.
Her domain included half a dozen small huts and a few larger buildings used for meetings or to shelter cattle and sheep.
During the day, she would have mucked in with the tribeswomen, perhaps weaving and sewing rough-hewn ...