Spirit of the times. British archaeological dumbdown at its most insidious: How does ‘Britain’s Tutankhamun’, a Saxon prince’s tomb found near an Aldi in Southend-on-Sea, fit in with the UK’s great archaeological finds? Red Lady to Richard III: Britain's 10 best buried treasures – ranked!, Guardian 8th May 2019. Two of them are human remains, several others are burials. Note that in the fluff, there is little about what these finds and their burial context tell us. Three of them don't even have a context at all - just a findspot.
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