Researchers find cases of bed burials, which were unusual in medieval Europe and exclusive to women in the A.D. seventh century.
. The girl also had a stunning cross made of gold and garnet on her chest. Her elaborate burial with such an expensive artifact indicated that this girl was an elite, probably of nobility or royalty. The highest levels of society donned crosses like hers.
“Comparison with other bed burials from across Europe shows that the bed burial rite was originally much more widespread, with the earliest example dating to fifth century Slovakia, and the latest to tenth century Norway. Likewise, bed burial isn’t restricted to just women; men and children were also buried in beds, one of the most famous being the burial of a five- to six-year-old boy underneath Cologne Cathedral,” Brownlee adds in a press release.
Outside England, bed burials were associated with both Christian and non-Christian communities. Brownlee elaborates further in a press release, “Isotopic analysis from three of the English bed burials suggests that the women buried in them did not grow up in Britain. This, along with the stark differences in who was given a bed burial in England and continental Europe, suggests that it was imported by a specific group of women, likely linked to conversion efforts in the seventh century.
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