Anglo Saxon grave yields woman buried with cow
Archaeologists inwards United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland are excited past times the uncovering of a 1400-year-old Anglo Saxon grave of a adult woman buried with a cow.
Normally, such finds would involved a warrior buried with his sacrificed Equus caballus or other beast of importance. Indeed, around involved inwards the dig initially idea the beast buried inwards the grave was a horse.
It is the rootage fourth dimension the Anglo Saxon grave of a adult woman has been found to incorporate an of import domestic animal.
Dr Faye Simpson, of the Department of History at Manchester Metropolitan University said of the uncovering at Oakington, Cambridgeshire: “This is hugely exciting. Usually it is warrior men who are discovered buried with their animals.
“Never earlier convey nosotros found a adult woman buried with a cow,” he said.
“In the fifth century, a moo-cow was a really of import to a community’s survival, together with then to sacrifice i is highly pregnant together with marks her downwards equally having really high condition non solely inwards her community, but perchance inwards a much wider geographical area.”
The theory is backed past times high condition finds with the remains, including amber beads, iii necklaces together with copper alloy brooches.
Simpson is working on the dig with colleagues from the University of Central Lancashire together with staff from Oxford Archaeology East, together with is joined past times students from Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of History.
It was i of the students, Kate Smith, 19, who discovered the woman’s grave.
The Manchester Metropolitan University squad volition pass a farther iii weeks at the site, simply exterior Cambridge, but convey already unearthed 100 graves, making it i of the most pregnant finds of its form inwards Britain.
Simpson estimates at that topographic point may live on a farther l to lx graves inwards the cemetery, which is 2 minutes walk from a settlement.
Artifacts, including brooches together with knives, are beingness conserved past times the university’s Special Collections section.
Jake Nuttall, a history pupil who is with the team, said: “This is a really odd detect together with everyone hither is really excited past times it. It is extremely rare to detect this. It’s a really of import discovery.”
Two students are working equally community outreach officers for the dig, together with are promoting it on Twitter, Facebook together with inwards local schools.
The detect comes afterwards the remains of a grouping of Anglo-Saxon warriors were found at a burial site on the American armed services air base of operations at Lakenheath inwards Suffolk inwards 2008.
Those warriors together with the adult woman found inwards Oakington lived well-nigh 600AD, when invaders from the continent were establishing kingdoms afterwards battles with the ancient Britons.
Follow the dig on twitter @oakingtondig together with on Facebook.
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