#saffron walden

[fuckitandmovetobritain]

Arkesden, Essex, England, UK

[livesunique]

Audley End House (reconstruction),

Saffron Walden, Essex, United Kingdom,

Courtesy: © Web Gallery of Art.

[thesilicontribesman]

Romano-British Three Pronged 'Trident' Candle Holder, Saffron Walden Museum, Essex.

[allthingseurope]

Saffron Walden, England (by Howard Somerville)

[cr-inge]

Saffron Walden, England

[charlesreeza]

[mostly-history]

Viking necklace from a woman's grave at Saffron Walden (Essex, late 9th century).

The necklace has beads of glass, carnelian, crystal and silver, a plain silver pendant inscribed with a cross, and two silver gilt pendants decorated with Scandinavian-style ribbon patterns.  It dates from c. 875 – 900 AD, when Alfred the Great was fighting the Danes.

This necklace was found in 1876 in the Saffron Walden cemetery, which dates from the late Saxon period.  During this time, the local population was Christian, and people were therefore buried without grave goods.  The one exception is the woman who was buried with this necklace, like pagan Viking women in Scandinavia.  The inscribed cross on the plain pendant suggests, however, that she had accepted Christianity.

One of the silver-gilt pendants.

[piskybooks-blog]

Stained glass