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Archaeologists uncover Anglo-Saxon cemetery

(14 October 2003)

Archeaologist from Durham University have uncovered an Anglo-Saxon cemetery which dates back to the early Christian period to the north of the small village of Milfield near Berwick. The cemetery contains 43 graves and lies on the site of a henge monument dating back to the Bronze Age. There are only 100 of these in the country and Milfield has the densest concentration of them. Reported in the Berwick Advertiser 2/10/03.