She was buried with a number of grave goods, including an iron knife, a chatelaine, and some glass beads that perhaps originally decorated a purse.

The excavations uncovered a variety of features from a long period of time, including two long barrows dating to the early Neolithic, a double burial dating to the Beaker culture (the bodies belonged to a man and a woman, either maternal cousins or half-brother and sister according to DNA analysis),[5] and an Iron Age settlement.

Other sites where bed burials have been excavated in recent years include Coddenham in Suffolk,[7] Collingbourne Ducis in Wiltshire,[8] and Loftus in North Yorkshire.

[9] Anglo-Saxon jewelled gold pectoral crosses are also very uncommon, with only five similar examples known, including one on St Cuthbert's coffin.

The only previously known case of a bed burial with a pectoral cross, discovered in the 19th century at Ixworth in Suffolk, was poorly documented, which makes this discovery particularly significant.