Trumpington bed burial

The occupant of the grave was a woman, aged about 16, who had moved from a region in southern Germany near the Alps shortly before her death. She was buried lying on a wooden bed (now decayed, but identifiable from its iron brackets). 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. An ornate gold pectoral cross was found on her breast. The cross, only 3.5 cm across, is inlaid with garnets, and would have been sewn onto the robe that she was wearing, as indicated by loops on the back of each arm of the cross.