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How do we know what it was like?
- Archaeologists have dug up the graves of lots of Saxon men. Apart from a skeleton, there was usually only a buckle. The belt had rotted away. They sometimes find weapons too.
- Men wearing tunics are shown in pictures on the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship burial.
- Where the Saxons came from in Europe, old Saxon bodies have been dug up in bogs. Bogs are very wet. Cloth sometimes doesn't rot in bogs. Archaeologists have found Saxons wearing baggy trousers and 'bandages' wound round their legs.
- Roman stone carvings show Saxon men wearing cloaks.