Excavation here in 1984 revealed a pagan Viking cemetery, either in or on the edge of an early Christian burial ground and included an important Viking female burial, referred to as a “queen”. This burial was associated with a cooking spit, three knives, scissors or shears, a comb, needle box and a necklace of sixty-seven jet, amber and glass beads probably of late 9th or early 10th century date. Other pagan burials had buckles with them and one was associated with thirteen small silver balls, possibly tassels from a cloak. From other graves were found a number of buckles and ring-headed pins and also a mid-10th century coin of Edmund.