“ Til death do us part ” is n’t quite enough for some . Archeologists from the University of Leicester have been excavating the " confused " chapel ofSt . Morrellin east Leicestershire and have recently announced the discovery of 11 human systema skeletale so far , all of which date back about 700 old age . Two of these skeletons include a man and a woman who were bury together and have been holding hand since the fourteenth century .
“ We have seen similar skeletons before from Leicester where a couple has been buried together in a individual grave , ” Vicki Score of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services ( ULAS ) said in apress release . “ The master inquiry we line up ourselves asking is why were they buried up there ? There is a dead proficient church in Hallaton . This lead us to marvel if the chapel could have served as some sort of exceptional home of burial at the time . ”
St. Michaelwas the main church in the Ithiel Town of Hallaton , though the the Chapel of St. Morrell was n’t too far aside . Hallaton was a very fussy and bustling town during the Middle Ages , with frequent fairs and attraction that would have draw in tourists and tradesmen . It is possible that the recover skeletons were the great unwashed who were ill , foreign , or possibly crook , who would not have been allowed inside St. Michael ’s church .
Whatever the reason for them to be swallow away from the main church building , the bodies were still lay east - west , as was the Christian tradition of the day . This was done to groom the dead for the Resurrection . Clergy members were swallow up facing the opposite counsel , as to be face the fold .
In accession to the lovers holding manus , the archaeologist strike an older man who come out to have died as a result from a blow to the psyche , likely from a pole axe during battle . A younger human being was found with damaged tooth and his knee drawn up to his chest .
The squad has alsouncovered materialsfrom the chapel service itself and have determined the chapel service ’s floor plan . Stone masonry , plaster from walls , roofing tile , and silver coin dating from the 12th-16th centuries have been plant at the site . The crew contrive to continue unearth the chapel and will also continue on with necropolis . alas , most records and any images regarding the church have been recede over time , so the full context of this site may be heart-to-heart to interpretation .
[ chapeau tip : LiveScience ]
