Remains of gold-adorned woman discovered near Windsor

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The remains of a woman who was buried almost 4,500 years ago has been discovered in a quarry in Berkshire wearing a precious necklace of gold beads – a particularly rare find from a woman’s grave, when even her near contemporary the Amesbury archer, the richest burial of the period ever found, only had two small gold hair ornaments.

Inevitably she has been dubbed “Kingsmead’s queen” after the quarry near Windsor where she was found, but the architects from Wessex archaeology have more properly called her “a woman of importance”.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/22/remains-of-woman-adorned-with-gold-beads-and-buried-4500-years-ago-discovered-near-windsor/