Langford 700AD Archaeologists reveal how Saxon settlement near

THIS is how a Saxon settlement, built on what is believed to be the oldest cremation site in the UK, might have looked more than 1,300 years ago.Archaeological artist Jon Cane was commissioned to create an image of how the settlement, discovered in 2014 close to Langford, near Maldon, might have looked.Evidence of a Mesolithic funeral pyre, beneath a Saxon settlement, was the biggest find in five digs over a nine-mile stretch following the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation canal, between ...