That this 6th century Saxon grave boasted gold foil crosses lends support to the growing supposition that post-Roman Britain was not nearly de-Christianised as propagandists for Augustine's mission to Kent would later insist that it had been: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/09/britains-equivalent-to-tutankhamun-found-in-southend-on-sea … H/t @WasiqUK
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Or simply that the Anglo-Saxons converted earlier than what Bede says.
7:36 AM - 9 May 2019
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