Couple Found Holding hands Even 700 Years Later
A team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have unearthed the remains of a man and a woman who were found with their fingers entwined and are believed to have been lying in that position for 700 years in Leicestershire, England.
The team is working with volunteers on a four-year excavation project at the "lost chapel of St. Morell" near the small village of Hallaton, CNN reports.
The archaeologists have excavated as many as 11 skeletons from the site till now and according to carbon-dating, the skeletons belong to the 14th century. They said that there was a high possibility of more skeletons still in the ground. However, the researchers were not sure as to why the people were buried there instead of in the main church in the village. They assume that the site might have been a special burial place for pilgrims, ABC News reports.
"We have seen similar skeletons before from Leicester where a couple has been buried together in a single grave. The main question we find ourselves asking is why were they buried up there? There is a perfectly good church in Hallaton. This leads us to wonder if the chapel could have served as some sort of special place of burial at the time," said Vicki Score, ULAS project manager, said in a statement, Mashable reports.
The archaeologists further said that they also discovered Roman archaeology, which included fragments of stone masonry and tiles. In addition to that, they found silver pennies at the site that show that it was in use during the 12th to 16th centuries.
