IT WAS custom for people to be buried fully clothed during the late 5th and early 6th century.

That is why archaeologists believe the unearthed Anglo Saxon graves in a farmer's field in Ringlemere, Sandwich, were probably all women after the discovery of beads and brooches.

Saxon men were often buried with their belts - even their weapons when it was fashionable to do so. That was of course after they killed off the locals and sent the rest of their men from Denmark.

What is fascinating to Keith Parfitt, co-director of excavations at the Canterbury Archaeological trust, whose team unearthed the 58 graves is that how did the great Roman civilisation get wiped out and get replaced with this fiery lot?