The skeleton was found with grave goods including brooches and hundreds of amber and decorated glass beads.

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The only exceptions being grave goods and whatever has weathered off onion domes.

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It includes a collection of grave goods with the bodies of a man and a woman from the 4th Century, who both died in their mid-20s.

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Amongst the grave goods was an animal pelt, containing a delicate bracelet studded with tin beads, a textile fragment with detailed leather fringing and a woven bag .

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This is the era of the mesmerizing 32, 000-year-old paintings in the caves at Chauvet or the ornate grave goods found at the burial site at Sungir outside of Moscow.

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How genuinely Christian, then, were many of those whose graves have been revealed by archaeologists to contain more signs of pagan burial customs (such as grave goods) than of Christian ones?

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The sarcophagus, along with a Roman tile kiln, Saxon grave goods and pottery unearthed at the site, sheds light on a "hidden" two hundred year period in the history of the capital, the museum said.

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