Medievalists.net » Cumbria http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/23/identity-st-bees-lady-cumbria-osteobiographical-approach/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/23/identity-st-bees-lady-cumbria-osteobiographical-approach/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:16:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50605 USING AN OSTEOBIOGRAPHICAL approach, this contribution considers the identity of the woman found alongside the St Bees Man, one of the best-preserved archaeological bodies ever discovered. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, combined with the archaeo- logical context of the burial and documented social history, provide the basis for the identifica- tion of a late 14th-century heiress whose activities were at the heart of medieval northern English geopolitics.

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