Название: Burying the Dead: An Archaeological History of Burial Grounds, Graveyards and CemeteriesАвтор: Lorraine Evans
Издательство: Pen & Sword History
Год: 2020
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 228
Размер: 12,85 Мб
Язык: английский
Deep in the heart of North Yorkshire, at a place called Walkington Wold, there lies a rather unusual burial ground, an Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery. Twelve skeletons were unearthed by archaeologists, ten without skulls, later examination of the skeletons revealed that their owners were all subjected to judicial execution by decapitation, one of which required several blows. Similar fates have befallen other wretched souls, the undignified burial of suicides - in the Middle Ages, the most profound of sins - and the desecration of their bodies, go largely unrecorded...