The 2022 dig uncovered a cemetery in the corner of Paddock Field. The burials followed Christian traditions, and preliminary dating showed they are from the Anglo-Saxon period. The cemetery was explored further in 2023, and 23 skeletons were taken for laboratory analysis at the University of Reading. These people of early medieval Cookham have a story to tell us.
Donations to Friends of Cookham are funding lab analysis to determine their sex, age at death, skeletal indications of lifestyle, and evidence of trauma or pathologies