Dec 12, 2017 @ 10:42 AM 20,834
Anglo-Saxon Graves Show Older Women Were Not Respected In Death
Geraldine Cave
Grave 95 at Mill Hill, Deal, Kent. This woman was the oldest burial in the cemetery and received a modest burial – a very plain brooch as illustrated, in a cemetery where women were buried with up to six brooches, many of silver, with garnets and highly decorative, as well as some beads, a knife and some fragments of metal.
In spite of the fact that women in Anglo-Saxon England were living to a ripe old age, a new archaeological study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology called "Sex and the Elderly" shows that they were often disrespected in death.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/12/12/anglo-saxon-graves-show-older-women-were-not-respected-in-death/#256abff618b6
