Before leaving their place of residence, the inhabitants of the medieval community destroyed the majestic gate and buried a 15-year-old girl with them. Apparently, in order to express her "other origin", they tied her ankles and buried her face down so that she would not "come back from the grave."
The remains of a girl who was buried between 680 and 880 near the village of Conington in Cambridgeshire testify to the fact that she endured many hardships in her short life: her teeth show malnutrition , and her back shows the presence of a disease of the spinal joints, which was aggravated by severe physical labor.
These signs indicate the low social status of a teenager. Her skeleton shows no signs of long-term illness, so there is a possibility that the girl died suddenly or unexpectedly.
“We will probably never know exactly how the society perceived this young girl, but the way she was buried tells us that she was apparently considered different,” says Don Walker, senior osteologist at the Museum of Archeology in London.
Source livescience.com
