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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/anglo-saxon-necklace-e1385337015591.jpg600376Extracts from Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, and other contemporary Anglo-Saxon and Frankish sources concerning queens and princesses who went into the church, show that these authors were aware that in the seventh century necklaces could be an important part of the identity of high status women.