 | Two detectorists found the collection of four gold pendants and one piece of a gold brooch on the slope of a hill in the village of Donington on Bain, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of London, in the spring of 2023. Items date to the seventh century. While gold and garnet pendants were common accessories for high-status women in seventh-century England, archaeologists typically find them in graves, not in a group on the side of a hill. |
| No other artifacts or human bones were found with the Donington pendants, which suggests that they were buried for safekeeping or in a votive act. Lindsey, the region where the hoard was found, shifted between the control of rival kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia, while the spread of Christianity was reshaping social and political life. |
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