When imagining the objects that might be present in an Anglo-Saxon tomb, a sword looks like a secure wager. Spoons of earwax and eyeliner, much less.
A graveyard in Wendover has been discovered to include a lot of magnificence gadgets buried with the useless.
The excavation, prompted by the development of the HS2 railway line, turned up a wealth of proof, together with toiletries and wine glasses, suggesting that the early Anglo-Saxons of the fifth and sixth centuries have been extra refined than beforehand thought.
A number of of the 141 our bodies have been buried with toothpicks, tweezers, combs, and “a beauty tube that will have contained a substance used as eyeliner or the like.”
A lady of excessive standing was buried with a pale inexperienced glass bowl that seems to have been a