Warrior Queen Is Unearthed (1,500 Years Old - Anglo-Saxon)

Linconshire Echo ^ | 9-20-2003

[BenLurkin]

Ping

[BenLurkin]

"The second woman had the amber beads around her neck and her feet were tied with a rope . . . and the man had his hand over a pot which had deliberately been made with holes in it so that it would never be used again."

Something tells me that the people who buried these folks were not a very nice bunch.

[txhurl]

Bodacious find. G-9, from here.

[Servant of the 9]

A relative of yours?

So9

[Burn24]

You know, there was an English queen who was over six feet and homely.. never married. I can't remember who it was. Anybody?

[annyokie]

Could you ping me to your neat finds? Thanks!

[Darkchylde]

Nah, too tall.
I'm probably related to a
race of short weird people...

[Ciexyz]

"The bones of the female warrior suggested she was six feet tall."

Xena!!! We found ya!

[Spirited]

Wonderful read. Thank you Blam.

The theorizing is amusing.
The truth is likely more amazing.

[blam]

FReeper 'farmfriend' does the ping list for these posts. I've alerted her.

[Rain-maker]

 Pre-Christian Celtic warrior leader Boadicea killed many Roman Britons in revenge for their ravage

 of her people. Yet this statue commemorating her is a prominent feature in London today.

 

[Sacajaweau]

Cool. Put me on your ping list please.

[Rain-maker]

Rofl...beat me too it.

[syriacus]

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out," Clinton said. "That's a good-looking mummy."

He always reverts to type [male on the prowl], doesn't he?

[Ciexyz]

After watching a special on one of the cable channels on "The Search for the historical King Arthur", I bought two books at amazon.com: "In Search of the Dark Ages (of Britain)" by Michael Wood, a British historian. First chapter is "Boadicea." Wood also wrote "In Search of England" which devotes coverage to the Saxon era.

Second book was "The Holy Kingdom" by Adrian Gilbert in which he extensively covers the same time frame, incl. Boadicea. He postulates that King Arthur's home base was Wales, not Somerset, as is commonly assumed.

[syriacus]

But one thing seems certain. By virtue of the fact that she was buried with a shield and dagger it seems probable that she was a high ranking member of society. And she was almost certainly involved in conflict.

Maybe she was an early Joan of Arc.

[LibKill]

Let's think about this.

She was the queen.

She was over 6 feet tall.

She had a sword and dagger and presumably did not carry them just to 'accessorize'. She knew what to do with them.

Now imagine it's 410AD. The queen is having a PMS kind of day.

RUN FOR DEAR LIFE!

[Eva]

Wow, interesting find. They never mention how tall the other two were. I wonder if six feet was very unusual, or if the Anglo Saxons were taller people.

[GeekDejure]

Dammit!!! How'd you get that 'first thing in the morning' pic of me??? Did you somehow manage to install a secret cam in my medicine cabinet???

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[solzhenitsyn]

The part about this that just doesn't make sense to me is that her feet were tied together, though she was buried with honor (i.e., with the shield and dagger). Wonder why it seems assumed that she was a queen? Could she have been a human sacrifice? Why would a ruler's subjects bury her with her feet tied together? If she was a queen (or at least a notable warrior), perhaps she was interred by enemies who respected her enough to bury her with the weapons and amber beads?