Mystery of Welsh medieval cemetery deepens

A medieval cemetery has been detected near the Cardiff Airport, which continues to confuse archaeologists, as the secrets around it are multiplying.

Site discovery, dating in the 6th or 7th century, Was declared last yearUnusual artifacts with dozens of skeletons were found to be lying in unusual positions.

Now researchers have learned that the burial in the cemetery is almost all women, and while their bones show signs of tears – it shows that they do heavy manual works – there are also surprising signs of wealth and luxury.

Another unpredictable discovery has been thrown into a ditch a woman, opposite to all other people, who were very carefully buried.

Andy Seeman of Cardiff University said, “Every time we think that we understand something, some more crops and pictures become more complicated,” said Andy Seemain of Cardiff University, who is leading the project.

About half the site, which is located in an infallible area in the grounds of Phonemon Castle, is now excavated.

So far researchers have found that 39 adult skeletons have lying in carved tombs carved with thick limestone. A complete analysis is still ongoing, but it has been thought that all are a woman.

Dr. Seemain said, “I am not completely sure what it means.”

“It may be that it is something special about this community, or it may be that it is probably just a cemetery within a broader type of landscape or it may be that there are more male in the other part of the cemetery.”

The skeletons of two children have also been found – surprisingly small number of high infant mortality at that time. His burial also has some complicated characteristics.

Dr, an archaeologist at Cardiff University. The Marion Shiner said, “The earth that has been used looks a bit different in adult graves to backfill the grave.”

“It is darker and looks more biological, so probably some time ended between the burial of adults and the burial of these two children – this is more mystery.”

Artifacts on the site are also adding the puzzle who these people were.

Earthen pots and fine, etched glasses were detected in graves, most likely they were feasting on the cemetery in the cemetery, while they visited the dead.

“Glass is rare, and where it is found that these are the site of a fairly important position,” Dr. Seemain said.

“It was probably built in Levant – the Egyptian region – and then built into ships, we think, in southern France, and perhaps arrived here with alcohol in the barrel.”

The presence of these objects suggests that it was not an ordinary community. And here every person is buried with laborious care, some flats, other croups, are all faced from east to west.

The team is not yet known why the woman was trapped in the ditch, she was treated differently, but believed that she could be an outcast or criminal.

He has taken his bones in the laboratory at Cardiff University to try to get more information about him.

Osteologist Dr. Katie Fales says she feels that the woman was in late 30s or early 40s.

His skeleton shows a healed fracture in his hand, while his teeth were infected and an abscess, which exposed the roots and was painful.

Ten of skeletons are also now undergoing more detailed analysis.

The results show that the burial people in the cemetery are not from the immediate region – they come from the entire Wales and possibly from the South -West of England.

Further DNA analysis will also reveal whether any of them were related.

The team is particularly interested in skeletal teeth.

Due to the way of growing teeth, they provide a unique record of whatever they have eaten since that time, when they are correct through their death.

“They are eating a very consistent diet based on a lot of carbs – but not too much meat,” Dr. Fales said. “And this is true in his adulthood since his childhood, and this is something we are seeing in the population.

“But there was no fish. As soon as the people of Rome leave, we see the absence of fish signals in the diet. It is one of the big secrets.”

Excavation continues in this summer and archaeologists will start detecting the other half of the cemetery.

Andy Seemain is hoping that the site has expected to be able to answer those questions.

“We are hoping to tell the story of individuals within the cemetery, but also a broad community,” he said.

“We know a lot about the lives of Kings and Queens, but there are very few everyday people. And before that we have not been able to detect the same community in the same community and all interesting inter-relations before that.”

But at the moment there are still many contradictions that remain unresolved.

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