Not the cold, as you'd expect, but the sea threatens the oldest city in the North.
The city was abandoned five thousand years ago: a thousand years before this extraordinary find of an early British hero.
The carved capstone had sealed the grave so well that organic materials including wood, bark and leather survived intact as well as various metal objects. The man, who is believed to have been an important figure, had been laid out on a bed of quartz pebbles in sand, in a birch coffin, inside a larger stone chamber. He was buried with a valuable bronze dagger with a gold band — still in its leather sheath. There was also evidence of the remains of wooden possessions and floral tributes.Whenever you find soft, organic material in one of these sites, it's exciting. To find it from four thousand years ago is amazing.
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