In 2011, archaeologists in England unearthed the skeletal remains of a teenage girl lying on a carved wooden bed and wearing a gold cross studded with rubies, a treasure they dubbed the Trumpington Cross. Little was known about the Anglo-Saxon girl, other than she was 16 years old when she died near the end of the seventh century and, based on her ornate grave goods, was likely an early convert to Christianity.
Now, a new facial reconstruction of the teen, whose tomb has come to be known as the Trumpington Cross burial, offers insight into what she may have looked like. Both the reconstruction and the gold cross are currently on display at the University of Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as part of a free exhibition called "Beneath Our Feet."
