Pioneer Burial: A high-status Anglian warrior burial from Wollaston Northamptonshire

Excavations at Wollaston Quarry, near Wellingborough, uncovered a single late 7th century grave, the Pioneer burial. The burial contained artefacts indicative of very high status, with the early to middle Saxon helmet being at the time only the fourth to have been recovered from a burial in England.

Sapaturile de la Wollaston Quarry, langa Wellingborough, au descoperit un singur mormant de la sfarsitul secolului al VII-lea, inmormantarea Pioneer. Inmormantarea continea artefacte care indica un statut foarte inalt, casca saxona timpurie pana la mijlocie fiind in acel moment doar a patra care a fost recuperata dintr-o inmormantare din Anglia.