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A girl’s skeleton, found buried with her feet tied and body facing the ground. Scientists assume this girl was viewed differently in her community at the time she lived.
Before leaving the settlement, a medieval community in England destroyed the entrance gate to their territory. Who knows what actually happened, scientists from the modern era discovered at that location a girl buried with her ankles tied and her face facing the ground.
Referring to archaeological records, the burial of a 15 year old girl on the border of the residential area is a sign that she was like a stranger to the local population.
“We will never know how this young girl was viewed by the community in which she grew up, but seeing how she was buried tells us that she was almost certainly viewed differently,” said Don Walker, senior osteologist at the Museum of London Archeology (MOLA).
He added that the nature of this girl’s death reflected her social identity or even her own family. In fact, it is very possible that he was treated in such a way as a result of the community’s belief in his resurrection from the grave which would harm many people.
“Apart from being buried face down in the ground, the position of her feet suggests the possibility that her ankles were tied together. This suggests the community took measured action to ensure the girl did not rise from her grave,” Walker was quoted as saying detikINET from Live Science (11/28/2023)
The girl’s skeletal remains, buried between 680-880 in the Cambridgeshire village of Conington, tell the story of her tragic life. His teeth showed evidence of malnutrition, while his back showed spinal joint disease exacerbated by the manual and heavy work of the day.
All these clues lead to the conclusion that the girl comes from a family of low social status. Her skeleton showed no signs of long-term illness, so it is not impossible that the girl died suddenly in a way that was beyond expectations.
Archaeologists removed the remaining bones during 2016-2018, as excavations preceded the construction project. Now, scientists at MOLA Headland Infrastructure have studied the girl’s remains and her burial location.
Previously, archaeologists had found the bones of women from early medieval England on the borders of the settlement as well. The location is about 50 km from Higham Ferres, Northamptonshire. His condition was even worse than that girl. This woman was buried face down on the ground with no hands, head, neck and fourth lumbar. This marks him as a victim of execution.
Radiocarbon dating revealed that the girl died sometime between the late 7th and late 9th centuries AD, while settlement activity occurred in the 8th-9th centuries AD. The settlement was one of the administrative centers of Mercia, a superpower kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England. However, when the kingdom began to lose power, many settlements became neglected.
*This article was written by Khalisha Fitri, a participant in the Merdeka Campus Certified Internship Program at detikcom.
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2023-11-28 13:15:11
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