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However, the oldest and most spectacular Saxon site found in France to date is Vron, in Picardy.

There, archeologists excavated a large cemetery with tombs dating from the Roman Empire until the 6th century.

Furniture and other gravegoods, as well as the human remains revealed a group of people buried in the 4th and 5th century AD.

Physically different from the usual local inhabitants found before this period, they instead resembled the Germanic populations of the North.

At the beginning ( 4th c .) 92 % were buried, sometimes with typical Germanic weapons.

Then, they were ranked to the east, when they were buried in the 5th and later to the beginning of the 6th c. We can notice a strong Anglo-Saxon influence in the middle of the period, that disappears later.

Archeological material, neighbouring toponymy and texts tend toward to the same conclusions: settlement of Saxon foederati with their families.

Further anthropological research by Joël Blondiaux shows they were from Low Saxony.