This is very elaborate, isn't it?

Mm, it's f- it's a fantastic piece of Bronze Age technology involving, um, a large blade of bronze, which is a copper and tin alloy, rivets holding it together, a bone handle, a band of gold which is holding it all together.

There's wooden pins involved here as well.

So this is an object that's not just about the metal of the dagger.

It's about so much more than that.

After the initial discovery, it's back here at the lab that most of the work has been done to identify the objects found in the grave.

We found a group of objects that were perhaps in a leather bag, and these include these strange-looking objects here, a lump of a metallic substance, which is an iron ore called limonite, a yellow iron ore.

And then it's lying on top of this stone tool, which is made of flint.

very elaborate, isn't it?

It's a fantastic piece of Bronze Age technology involving a large blade of bronze, which is a copper and tin alloy, rivets holding it together, a bone handle, a band of gold which is holding it all together, there's wooden pins involved here as well.

So this is an object that's not just about the metal of the dagger, it's about so much more than that.

As far as Alasdair's concerned, the results from the Magdeburg tomb are conclusive.

I think that we can be 99% certain that we have the remains of Princess Edith, partly because the archaeological evidence suggests she's of the correct age.

But using the strontium isotopes, we can show that the results are consistent with someone who's been brought up on the kind of geology that surrounds the Winchester area, which is what the historical accounts suggest Princess Edith did.