
05/06/2025
“Incompetently excavated in 1882, the early 7th century burial mound at Taplow, Buckinghamshire, remained the greatest Anglo-Saxon burial known until the opening of Sutton Hoo Mound 1 in 1939, but the chaotic nature of the original excavation meant many of the items of “treasure” unceremoniously ripped from context remained little understood, and it was well into the following century before the two wonderful gilded bird fittings and associated wooden fragments were identified as part of a lyre.”
https://www.thegns.org/blog/two-princely-c7th-anglo-saxon-lyres