Medieval society burial of a 15-year-old girl bound face down ‘so she would not return from the grave’

Before leaving her settlement, A.J Medieval society in England demolishing a gate complex and burying one in its place 15-year-old girl. In fact, they made sure of it Brace the ankles her and bury her down the faceAccording to archaeologists.

“We may never know exactly what the society this young woman was brought up in was like, but the way she was buried tells us that They definitely saw it differently“, pointing to Don WalkerOrthopedist in Archeology Museum in London (Ministry of Labor), in a statement issued last Monday and re-published live science. Her burial ceremony may have reflected the nature of her death or her social and family identity.

It is also possible that the society bound the girl’s ankles because of the belief in this Her corpse could rise from the grave and harm the living.

“In addition to being buried face down, the position of her ankles suggests that they may have been strapped together,” Walker notes. This indicates that the community has taken additional measures to ensure that it cannot ‘return’ from the grave.”

The girl’s remains They were buried between 680 and 880 AD. near the village Connington in CambridgeshireIt turns out that she has faced a lot of hardships during her short life. Her teeth bear Signs of malnutrition Her back reveals that she has intervertebral joint disease which was exacerbated by hard manual labour.

This evidence indicates that the teenager had Low social status. Her skeleton bore no signs of long-term disease, so it could be the girl Died suddenly or unexpectedlyarchaeologists say in the ad.

girl remains They were discovered between 2016 and 2018, during excavation work for a construction project. Now, US Department of Labor scientists have studied the teen’s skeleton and burial site in more detail.

unusual position

The girl’s face-down position is unusual, like dead in her Early Medieval England They are buried face up. When the teenage girl community uprooted a large wooden pole at the entrance to the settlement, the remaining hole was used as a cemetery.

Radio dating showed that the girl died between the late seventh and ninth centuries, while activity in the settlement dates back to the eighth and ninth centuries. Settlement served One of the administrative centers of Mercia, from a powerful kingdom in Anglo-Saxon England. But when the kingdom began to lose its power, the settlement was abandoned.

if The girl’s burial coincided with the abandonment of the settlement – as the removal of the gate serving as her burial site suggests – was likely one of the last things her community did before she left.