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Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Taron Egerton stars in Christmas action Netflix film
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Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Bucks Fizz and Christmas hit lyricist Sinfield dies
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London becomes Emerald City for Wicked premiere
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London becomes Emerald City for Wicked premiere
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Silent Men film asks why so many still struggle to open up
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Monday, 18 November 2024
12th c. mass pit burial found at Leicester Cathedral
One of the largest mass burial pits ever discovered in the UK has been unearthed next to Leicester Cathedral. The pit contained the skeletal remains of 123 men, women and children dumped down a narrow vertical shaft in the early 12th century.
“Their bones show no signs of violence – which leaves us with two alternative reasons for these deaths: starvation or pestilence,” said Mathew Morris, project officer at Leicester University’s archaeological services. “At the moment, the latter is our main working hypothesis.”
The excavations by Morris and his colleagues suggest the bodies were put into the shaft in three deposits, in rapid succession. “It looks as if successive cartloads of bodies were brought to the shaft and then dropped into it, one load on top of another in a very short space of time,” he said. “In terms of numbers, the people put in there probably represented about 5% of the town’s population.” […]
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles repeatedly mention great pestilences and fevers, severe mortality, and miserable deaths from hunger and famine in England from the mid-10th century through to the mid-12th century, said Morris. “This mass burial fits within this timeframe and provides physical proof of what was then occurring across the nation.”
The discovery of the remains of King Richard III in a Leicester parking lot in 2012 caused a seismic shift in Leicester Cathedral’s identity as a place of worship, pilgrimage and tourist attraction. His body was reburied in a purpose-built tomb at Leicester Cathedral in 2015, triggering a ten-fold increase in the number of visitors to the church.

University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) were engaged to explore the site dedicated to construction of the HLC.
The Cathedral Gardens is a tranquil green space that developed over the course of the past 80 years from what was once the old churchyard (closed to new burials in 1856). The churchyard wasn’t just a burial ground in the centuries before its closure. Like many cemeteries, it was a park-like gathering place for the residents of a densely-populated urban center, and there is archival and archaeological evidence of buildings dating to as early as the 12th century as well as dwellings rented to tenants by the church from the 15th through the 18th centuries.
What is now Leicester Cathedral began as the parish church of St. Martin. It is first mentioned by name in historical records in 1220, but historians believed there was an earlier iteration of St. Martin’s dating to before the Norman conquest. In the excavation of the HLC site, archaeologists hoped to find evidence of the earliest church, as well as remains of the ancient Roman settlement of Ratae Corieltavorum, most of which is under the historic center of Leicester and therefore inaccessible to archaeologists.
Excavations concluded in March 2023. In ten months of digging in a relatively small pit 43 by 49 feet by 20 feet deep, the team unearthed 19,754 artifacts and 1,237 skeletons spanning 15,000 years of history. The burials range in date from the 11th through the 19th century, the full period when St. Martin’s churchyard was in use.
“It’s a continuous sequence of 850 years of burials from a single population from a single place, and you don’t get that very often,” added Morris. “It has generated an enormous amount of archaeology.”

The analysis of the bones in the pit burial revealed that they were older than previously thought. Because there were so many bodies in the shaft, archaeologists first suspected they were victims of the Black Death which cut such a deadly swath through Europe that a third of its population was killed. This would have been the first archaeological evidence of the Black Death in Leicester. Instead, radiocarbon dating results showed the deceased had been dumped into the pit 150 years before that.
To pinpoint what the cause of this mass death event may have been, the ULAS team has sent samples of the bones to the Francis Crick Institute in London for DNA analysis that might identify the pathogen.
“It was clearly a devastating outbreak that resonates with recent events, in particular the Covid pandemic,” said Morris. “But it is also important to note there was still some form of civic control going on. There was still someone going around in a cart collecting bodies. What we see from studying the bodies in the pit does not indicate it was created in a panic.”
He added: “There was also no evidence of clothing on any of the bodies – no buckles, brooches, nothing to suggest these were people who were dropping dead in the street before being collected and dumped.
“In fact, there are signs that their limbs were still together, which suggests they were wrapped in shrouds. So their families were able to prepare these bodies for burial before someone from a central authority collected them to take to the pit burial.”
* This article was originally published here
Paul Mescal says Ronan was 'spot on' over viral clip
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Sunday, 17 November 2024
Archaeologist leaves message in Viking ship burial

Myklebust was the estate of 9th century Viking king Audbjörn Frøybjørnsson of Firda. Frøybjørnsson died in battle against Harald Hairfair who successfully fought to unite the petty kingdoms of Norway into a single crown under his rule. After his death in 870, Frøybjørnsson’s body was returned to Myklebust and was given a ship burial. The burned ship was covered by a great mound known as Rundehogjen. The mound is 100 feet in diameter and 13 feet high. The ship was burned during the funeral ritual, but the remains — 7000+ rivets, the large ash pile, 44 shield bosses — made it possible for the archaeologists to extrapolate its size. It was at least 100 feet long (far longer than the Oseberg and Gokstad ships which are more famous today because they were not burned and survive intact), the largest ship that has ever been found in a Viking burial. It is also the only known cremation Viking ship burial ever discovered in Scandinavia.

Before refilling the mound, Lorange wrote a note, rolled it up and put it in a green glass bottle along with his business card and five coins. The text of the note translates to:
“This Mound was excavated Anno Domino 1874. Of Anders Lorange, Antiqvarius Norvegiæ. The mound is built over fallen Men. They were burned in their ship with their weapons and decorations. Of shield bosses were 26 – of Swords 2 – an ax and many Arrows – in addition to many other Old Saws. The find is handed over to Bergens Museum.”
NB: There were actually 44 shield bosses in the burial, so he missed a few, nor did he mention the bronze cinerary urn. Project leader and archaeologist Morten Ramstad believes Lorange omitted these important objects from his list because he wasn’t the one who got down in the dirt. Farm laborers did the actual digging, so even though he was the lead archaeologist, Lorange didn’t have all the information by the time the burial was refilled.
He was less than conversant on another subject in his area of expertise too, but that didn’t stop him from shouting out his sweetheart.
At the bottom of the letter, Lorange has written a message in runes. But when Ramstad sought out experts in runic writing, they struggled to decipher what was written.
“Eventually we realized that Lorange did not know runes, and had only translated the sentence directly using the younger runic alphabet. Then we translated it to ‘Emma Gade my girlfriend.’ He wrote the same on his business card, which was also in the bottle, says Ramstad.
Emma Gade from Bergen later became Lorange’s wife. But this was not the first time Lorange left a letter in a bottle with a declaration of love.
“A similar bottle was found during the excavation of Raknehaugen in 1939. There, Lorange [who was the first to excavate the mound in 1869-70,] had written a declaration of love to Ingeborg Heftye, but we know that she ended up marrying someone else. Lorange was undoubtedly an amorous young man, says Ramstad.

“Investigations at Myklebusthaugen will undoubtedly give us a better understanding of a powerful and important Viking Age cultural environment with contacts that have gone far beyond Norway. They also confirm that the ship Lorange found was of considerable size. And not least that the mound hides several burials,” explains Ramstad.
The bottle, note, card and coins will become part of the University Museum’s collection, and will go on display at its bicentennial exhibition next year.
* This article was originally published here
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