FYI ... more coverage:
“Who was she? Mystery of the bejewelled Anglo-Saxon woman found buried beside sacrificial cow in unique discovery”
“Bizarre find makes history”
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/education/bizarre-find-makes-history-1-4692039
She must have really loved that cow.
Holy cow!
I told my wife that when I die, I want to be buried with a spear in one hand and an iPod in the other to really throw “researchers” off 1,000 years from now.
Given the headline: ‘Cow Woman’, I immediately assumed it was Michelle’s granny...
So the cow died and fell on the woman....big deal.
Maybe an heir to queen Boudicca?
It was probably just a beloved pet or companion, so they decided to bury it with her, and have a BBQ at the same time...
That's bad English; it means the woman was 1400 years old when she died and they buried her with a cow. It should read "The 1400 year old skeleton of a woman buried with a cow..."
None of you have any imagination. The woman was wealthy, and had made some power plays in the village that her rival didn’t like. So some spoiled milk was made a part of of some tragedy, probably food poisoning, and the milk was traced back to the cow, and the cow belonged to the woman, so the cow and the woman were buried alive to punish the “witchcraft.” And in that way, the dead woman’s rival was able to pass the first EPA milk safety laws that eventually led to Britain rejecting football for soccer, gutting their navy, and letting the Muslims install sharia law.
Bovinacea?
When the milkmaid died, nobody else wanted to take care of that cow.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12986792
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... for your consideration. Hugs, Mom
its called COWPOX /s
DNA tests show that the woman is a direct ancestor of Rachel Madcow.
Maybe she screwed up somehow and got the family cow killed.
This is a message to the other cow herders not to mess up.
Pretty effective I’d say. We are talking about it thousands of years later.
Old Adage: “Everyone to their own taste,” said the old woman as she kissed her cow.