Third century. The 200's AD. Britain is still in Roman hands at that time. That would explain why she wasn't buried in a church. She was buried in a family plot on their land. More than likely, all the other burials have been destroyed or simply disintegrated.
Each to his own, but I don’t know why some people are so touchy about this. If someone stumbles across my bones centuries from now, I hope they’re able to study them and learn as much as possible about my life and the era in which I lived. Why wouldn’t I want that?
Ryan Smith - hopefully in the future we will be able to leave microchips with our life story......just think about how this could change how future generations learn/see our lives.....we could incorporate emotion and values and traditions........🕊
Chad Flores You’re joking surely! Some of my thoughts I would want known only to me. The most pristine and Christian of minds would have more than a few off colour moments. Would you get to choose who knows what of your thoughts? I myself have had some very impure thoughts about my wife’s (adult) niece that I would rather take undisturbed to my grave.
It also may have been that she was much loved and therefore buried by someone in this costly manner. People still do that today, digging deep in their pockets to lay a loved one to rest in a way that others might say "cost too much." Perhaps a young wife who died from TB?
She was obviously loved and missed by someone, that so much care and expense was taken when she was laid to rest. I hope that when the scientists complete their work this lady will be decently reburied.
All of you involved, please continue your work and disregard nahsayers, the value of your discoveries helps focus the lives from our past. Thank you mightily.
Would of been great if they would rebuilt skull and do a computer face thing would love to see what she could of look like. Also DNA testing and see if anyone on earth match's her dna.
Harolyn Allison what the Heck is your problem? I said nothing wrong it would be great to see a face of someone who lived long ago and see if anyone on earth is related to them.
i think personally the chances are very small some bacteria or virus would survive 1700 years in the ground with no host, i dont say its impossible tho, who knows. but still...
This made me think of The Potter’s Field-a Cadfael book by Ellis Peters. Strange that she wasn’t buried in a regular cemetery but all on her own. Maybe she died while traveling
We don't know that there wasn't a burial ground there. It was only by virtue of the unusual lead-lining of her coffin that her remains had not thoroughly decomposed in the nearly 2000 years since she died.
Buried in a lead casket....plague perhaps ? Back then rich people did this. If not a plague lady, someone cared for her a lot to have her buried as such.
Remember, that tiny wife of one of the princes in the tower was found like that, too. Anne Mowbray or so. The worker which found her in East End's soil thought they found a mummy. These lead things were complete normal in times back then among the riches.
I guess I'd like to know the body was returned to some resting place? This was a human being, who believed in an afterlife. I'd want my bones returned to some place and not tossed away or on display.
@Daruki Neo The body housed the soul and should not be treated as an object. Respect for the dead means your life on earth was more than just existing in a bag o' meat....
Our world is screwed, as you can tell from the idiocy posted attacking the researchers for doing their jobs. It is as if some managed to go through their school years without a clue. SAD!
Nothing useful or practical comes from such "research." Just satisfaction of morbid curiosity and propagation of the idea that humans are just animals undeserving of the dignity of a final resting place.
You always have the Control Freaks out there that bitch any time you find a bit of history. They know that someday their little bubble will burst with the right discovery, so they hate real science.
The manner in which this woman's body was prepared is consistent with those used in high-status Roman burials in the later Christian period. The most interesting question here is why she was buried in a field rather than a crypt or a columbarium, as such burials usually were. I think she was buried in some such place at death (or perhaps her relics were displayed as those of a saint) and she was buried in the field at a later date, perhaps to hide her during the Reformation.
Because she died a hundred years before the Roman Empire adopted Christianity, therefore not a Christian burial and, therefore, buried wherever the family chose to inter her.
@@petermolloy6142 The Roman Empire officially adopted Christianity in 300 AD (about the same time as this woman was buried, or a bit before) and pre-Christian funerall practices were not much different from Christian ones, aside from the fact that burial became more popular than cremation.
Judith Gockel also to avoid breathing in mold spores, fungi, the Black Plague, or worse. I’m surprised they didn’t protect their airways being scientists and all. I was surprised at the early date. I hope she was reburied respectfully in a nearby lovely location, with a marker stating the discovered information!
And now she will lie forever more on a shelf in a museum wrapped in tissue paper next to an Egyptian artefact or a squashed flower that Banks found. 🇦🇺👍
A pleasure to watch, no disturbing pop up adds. Would be nice to find out if they can extract DNA, maybe even find if the lady has living relatives. Many thanks for sharing.
One of the Universities offer a class where you put a face to a skull, you should call them. They can create a 3D model from the parts you have. It's really cool.
I wonder what her story was ? Fascinating and a reminder of how miniscule we are amongst the thousands of thousands who came before us. All these people in hopes of resurrection
Well, personally I wouldn't care if they put me back or not. That's just the remains of one of the bodies I've used, no different than finding a suit that I've worn. I would like them to know who I was, however. I plan on making a lead nameplate to that end to be placed with my body.
This video clip was very interesting to me.l didnt realize that they buried their dead in lead coffins.This person was buried in the 3rd century.l know that lead was used in cosmetics and some diseases.Quite possible this is why so many used for small pox scarring on facial features.But l had no idea they had lead means to bury in the 3rd century.Like the person commented buried in this fashion because of a plague?Even so....thank u for this video.Archeology in any form is amazing to me.What a learning experiece.
J Kincaid but why lead coffins I think it's more than status as Royal and thier decsendants are the only ones allowed to be buried this way as well as a higher purpose which points to what the Royal is.... And that's the real question Why lead coffins
The film said the burial took place in the 3rd century AD Lead had been used since early Roman times for various uses including to cap wine amphora and some people thought that the resulting use of wine tainted by lead gave people lead poisoning leading to dementia and death and possibly contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. A bit far fetched but at least we know that lead was available and widely mined and used since early times. If the dating is correct the woman's death would have occurred sometime in the early days of the formation of the Holy Roman Empire which leads me to suspect that the girl may have been from a Roman family rather than a family native to the area, because the burial was Roman or Christian if you will , rather than a pagan burial and the only people with extensive wealth in that area would have Roman ties either military or mercantile. Though the Roman Empire was on the wane I believe that it still had control of the southern part of England at the time.l
How about returning the remains to the original burial site after your analysis. It would be Sacrilegious for these remnants of a human soul to be filed away on a shelf in a basement!
Ok so after testing and all that do they lay these people back to rest? I know she's been gone for a really long time but still we all deserve to stay in the resting place we chose for ourselves in life and also even if she didnt choose the spot who's to say that more than the 6 meters away that they dug out or even deeper are all her family members and i myself would like to stay with my loved ones even after death!! Just sayin'!
i agree with you but the problem is she is in a farmers field and he is using a tractor and digging it constantly to place crops so it has to be moved.
When old human remains were found near the boundry wall of our Church during repairs, we reburied them with all the trimmings, all the readings etc. From the position where they were found, they were originally paupers graves, so they will have had a better burial the second time.
This was fascinating. I dig stuff like this. It's history. I'm sure the ancestor doesn't mind us looking at her bones. She doesn't need them anymore, she's probably flying by now.
I'll say I didn't know hobnails went that far back. Fascinating. All these commenters don't seem to understand how archaeology works. No y'all...she didn't get put back where she was found. She also isn't going to be reburied anywhere else unless family claims her and petitions for the return of her body. Which isn't likely to happen particularly considering the early time period she was interred. She's a part of History and Science now. She's not there anymore, it's nothing but a vehicle left behind.
The lady in lead is heavy you see, but take a peek Your coffin is here, it's just you and me, It's what I wanna see But I hardly know this beauty that here lies I wonder how you looked when you were alive
In ancient times it was believed that lead would hold the spirit and the soul and it would not be able to get through whoever this is may have been a wicked person
Being in a lead casket usually is because the body is emitting radiation could possibly kill 100-300 years after burial they must have checked her first assuming they weren’t wearing hazmat suits 🤔
Just brought strong to mind these few lyrics... I'm digging in the dirt To find the places I got hurt To open up the places I got hurt ~Genesis song: ''Digging In The Dirt'' album: "Us" (1992)
How long does someone have to be dead before their grave becomes an archeological site? I certainly hope these bones were returned to the earth and not locked away in a cupboard somewhere.
I think this may not be her original burial site, because the Romans usually buried high-status people in crypts. Perhaps she was displayed as a saint in a local church, and hidden during the Reformation.
They must have some time in there hands, tiny little brushing the soil , must have taken days!! I would have sorted it with me dyson animal v6 hand held Hoover, there fore finishing work earlier, then gone for a couple of pints .
And to all the idiots criticising them for digging it up....the body is in a farmers field, getting crushed every time a tractor goes over. It was found by ACCIDENT. A body should not be left in a field just because your a moron. The first thing they try to do is find out what's there, see if its in danger of damage, then check its not a recent burial. That takes time and cannot be done in a field. once removed, we have NO IDEA WHAT SO EVER of how to rebury them according to their own religeon. If you put them in a modern graveyard, that's Christian holy ground and is disrespect to their original pagan beliefs.
The remains were dated at 300 AD, and prepared in a manner that suggests those of a high status Christian individual, most likely an aristocrat or a nun. I think that after archaeological analysis, it would be perfectly acceptable to re-bury her in a Christian grave yard.
It said nothing about Christian individuals. You are projecting your own beliefs and life philosophy into something that is just a 10 min. blurb. There were still a lot of Celtic tribes and Viking raiders and pagans and tree worshipers, so take it easy Billy Fallwell send me a $1,000 seed donation so you can enter the realm of heaven. Leave the archaeology to those that want to learn the truth without an agenda of some kind
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The lead is covered in a corrosion layer, and being a heavy element it is unlikely to create an aerosol, there is plenty of evidence from bullets and bullet fragments that even if you have a sizeable chunk of lead in you this doesn’t result in high plasma lead levels because the body encloses it in a ‘granulation’ layer (proteins and suchlike) to isolate you from the ‘foreign body’. People who get lead poisoning usually get it from drinking mildly acid water or cider or suchlike which has lead dissolved in it.
these aren't scientists these are grave robbers interested in only one thing__ what valuables they can steal off the dead and call "artifacts and sell at a profit all in the name of "science"
@@williammoses6232 artifacts from digs like these are almost always catalogued, analyzed, then curated. Unauthorized folks digging up remains like these are the ones selling and profitting off them. Not the scientists.
@@erichoppe9876 Eric, you are way off topic here. Control your hate and educate yourself. You may find out that you are not correct. If after looking at the facts you still believe that, I feel so sorry for your blindness. Stay safe!
Third century. The 200's AD. Britain is still in Roman hands at that time. That would explain why she wasn't buried in a church. She was buried in a family plot on their land. More than likely, all the other burials have been destroyed or simply disintegrated.
Each to his own, but I don’t know why some people are so touchy about this. If someone stumbles across my bones centuries from now, I hope they’re able to study them and learn as much as possible about my life and the era in which I lived. Why wouldn’t I want that?
Ryan Smith - hopefully in the future we will be able to leave microchips with our life story......just think about how this could change how future generations learn/see our lives.....we could incorporate emotion and values and traditions........🕊
@@deeskaggs4087 Yes 😊 It would Be so Interesting to Have all our Memories preserved and Not Lost to Time
@Adrian Heath yes, I so totally agree!!
Same here.
Chad Flores You’re joking surely! Some of my thoughts I would want known only to me. The most pristine and Christian of minds would have more than a few off colour moments. Would you get to choose who knows what of your thoughts? I myself have had some very impure thoughts about my wife’s (adult) niece that I would rather take undisturbed to my grave.
Finding one grave - would that suggest that there may be more nearby? A private graveyard, perhaps for a family?
It also may have been that she was much loved and therefore buried by someone in this costly manner. People still do that today, digging deep in their pockets to lay a loved one to rest in a way that others might say "cost too much." Perhaps a young wife who died from TB?
She was obviously loved and missed by someone, that so much care and expense was taken when she was laid to rest. I hope that when the scientists complete their work this lady will be decently reburied.
Fantastic a young woman almost 2000 years old being able to give us a very small insight into her life! Treat this young lady well, she deserves it!
2000 yerars? Did u mean 200?
@@minka866 The third century wasn't 200 years ago. The woman existed in Roman times and was buried in Roman soil. Rome fell long before the 1800s
All of you involved, please continue your work and disregard nahsayers, the value of your discoveries helps focus the lives from our past. Thank you mightily.
Would of been great if they would rebuilt skull and do a computer face thing would love to see what she could of look like. Also DNA testing and see if anyone on earth match's her dna.
Harolyn Allison what the Heck is your problem? I said nothing wrong it would be great to see a face of someone who lived long ago and see if anyone on earth is related to them.
Harolyn Allison Wow, what a little ball of bitterness you are.
Harolyn Allison you are a bloody jerk
Dorothra Walker
Yes it would be fascinating!
Interesting indeed, but quite a puzzle problem putting it together.
Is it not dangerous to inhale air near that? No fungus or dangerous bacteria?
The smallpox virus could still be alive in her!
No coronavirus?
@@trueblue4069 This video was from 2015...unless you were being facetious, in which case, do carry on.
Laura Marie 🤣
i think personally the chances are very small some bacteria or virus would survive 1700 years in the ground with no host, i dont say its impossible tho, who knows. but still...
It's always wishful thinking that something like this would remain pristine and intact after over a millennia.
Very interesting. Thank you for posting.
This made me think of The Potter’s Field-a Cadfael book by Ellis Peters. Strange that she wasn’t buried in a regular cemetery but all on her own. Maybe she died while traveling
Glad to run across a fellow Bro. Cadfael fan.
We don't know that there wasn't a burial ground there. It was only by virtue of the unusual lead-lining of her coffin that her remains had not thoroughly decomposed in the nearly 2000 years since she died.
Given the effort put into burying her, I'd say the was probably buried in a garden, of the home she or her family lived in.
Buried in a lead casket....plague perhaps ? Back then rich people did this. If not a plague lady, someone cared for her a lot to have her buried as such.
Remember, that tiny wife of one of the princes in the tower was found like that, too. Anne Mowbray or so.
The worker which found her in East End's soil thought they found a mummy.
These lead things were complete normal in times back then among the riches.
The third century, wow. I'm just so amazed that something like that could last so long.
Ahh, bones have been dug up that are close to 100k to 300k years old.
I have seen lead pipes in pompeii videos ,interesting stuff
I guess I'd like to know the body was returned to some resting place? This was a human being, who believed in an afterlife. I'd want my bones returned to some place and not tossed away or on display.
I agree, makes me uncomfortable
@Daruki Neo The body housed the soul and should not be treated as an object. Respect for the dead means your life on earth was more than just existing in a bag o' meat....
Ilchester is right on my door step and has a strong connection to the Romans.
"Lady in lead, is dancing with me, cheek to cheek..."
and she was hotter than the lady in red.
🇺🇸
Sung by "Simply Lead"
@@vannjunkin8041 No ,sung by a Japanese ,or Chines group .
Lead Zeppelin cover
Our world is screwed, as you can tell from the idiocy posted attacking the researchers for doing their jobs. It is as if some managed to go through their school years without a clue. SAD!
Nothing useful or practical comes from such "research." Just satisfaction of morbid curiosity and propagation of the idea that humans are just animals undeserving of the dignity of a final resting place.
You always have the Control Freaks out there that bitch any time you find a bit of history.
They know that someday their little bubble will burst with the right discovery, so they hate real science.
you call robbing graves "research" how dense are you???
@@williammoses6232 This is nothing like grave robbing. How dense are you ???
The researchers can find another line of work. Leave the dead alone.
The manner in which this woman's body was prepared is consistent with those used in high-status Roman burials in the later Christian period. The most interesting question here is why she was buried in a field rather than a crypt or a columbarium, as such burials usually were. I think she was buried in some such place at death (or perhaps her relics were displayed as those of a saint) and she was buried in the field at a later date, perhaps to hide her during the Reformation.
Nah she was a poor person.
Because she died a hundred years before the Roman Empire adopted Christianity, therefore not a Christian burial and, therefore, buried wherever the family chose to inter her.
@@daddygirlchanelhines4600 If she was poor, she would have been buried with only a shroud or a very basic wooden coffin.
@@petermolloy6142 The Roman Empire officially adopted Christianity in 300 AD (about the same time as this woman was buried, or a bit before) and pre-Christian funerall practices were not much different from Christian ones, aside from the fact that burial became more popular than cremation.
RIP Lady in Lead.
Can't believe they're messing with this without protective face gear.
Why would they need face gear?
TenTwentyOne - to avoid (1) breathing in pathogens, and (2)to avoid contaminating the subject’s DNA profile.
Judith Gockel also to avoid breathing in mold spores, fungi, the Black Plague, or worse. I’m surprised they didn’t protect their airways being scientists and all. I was surprised at the early date. I hope she was reburied respectfully in a nearby lovely location, with a marker stating the discovered information!
Tanya S. - yes, pathogens.
What pathogens exactly..? Do tell. 1700+ years in soil. Contaminating DNA... Its not like they are professionals that do this for a living.
I hope when they are done playing with her, she was reburied with care and respect.
They will ,these guys are pros ,not grave robbers .
Scientific research is not "playing" in any sense of the word.
They will not put her back where they found her they never do they use all those bones and stuff for scientists
Disrespect you're supposed to let the dead rest
@@normanpearson8753 yes it is an ethical thing that archaeologists are now trained to do.
And now she will lie forever more on a shelf in a museum wrapped in tissue paper next to an Egyptian artefact or a squashed flower that Banks found. 🇦🇺👍
Evidently, burial isn't forever, even if your casket isn't in anyone's way.
A pleasure to watch, no disturbing pop up adds. Would be nice to find out if they can extract DNA, maybe even find if the lady has living relatives. Many thanks for sharing.
One of the Universities offer a class where you put a face to a skull, you should call them. They can create a 3D model from the parts you have. It's really cool.
I don't see how...
I wonder what her story was ? Fascinating and a reminder of how miniscule we are amongst the thousands of thousands who came before us. All these people in hopes of resurrection
Yeaah
Well, personally I wouldn't care if they put me back or not. That's just the remains of one of the bodies I've used, no different than finding a suit that I've worn. I would like them to know who I was, however. I plan on making a lead nameplate to that end to be placed with my body.
Why not stainless steel?
Why u won't know urself
@@sabinfigaro7334 SS can still rust. Lead is totally inert. And lead is easier to work with.
To bad the coffin was so damaged. This was very interesting.
Too bad
Gotta love the title "Lady in Lead". I never will forget the way she looked at last.
You should wear a mask ,my goodness.
Takes on new meaning in 2020...
@@sairbear444 omg. Yes.
@ap72sentinal 👍😀
It would be very curious to do dna and see if it was anyone important since lead was so expensive.
How would DNA help decide if the person was someone important ??
@@tapsars7911 Genealogical lines can help find a prominent name in the history that matches up with the known information
This video clip was very interesting to me.l didnt realize that they buried their dead in lead coffins.This person was buried in the 3rd century.l know that lead was used in cosmetics and some diseases.Quite possible this is why so many used for small pox scarring on facial features.But l had no idea they had lead means to bury in the 3rd century.Like the person commented buried in this fashion because of a plague?Even so....thank u for this video.Archeology in any form is amazing to me.What a learning experiece.
this is near where i live
Sad to disturb the coffin. It's so interesting that since the beginning of history great care was given to the deceased.
Did you. Not see the care they gave to the soil in zippies?
Until you disturb the surface, sanding scraping etc. it’s stable
So interesting. Glad during my time TH-cam led me here
I hate that her. Grave wasn’t marked in some manner. Like a map that was transferred with the property through the ages. Nothing is sacred anymore.
Fascinating work. They were thrilled.
wonder where lead lining coffins came from?
J Kincaid but why lead coffins I think it's more than status as Royal and thier decsendants are the only ones allowed to be buried this way as well as a higher purpose which points to what the Royal is....
And that's the real question Why lead coffins
Michele Mullis www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=342463.0
Big Brother Keyboarding Vigalante I belive they used lead to seal the box for transport , it's maulable & has a low melting temperature
80s World Channel Mike not just royalty , nobility as well
The film said the burial took place in the 3rd century AD Lead had been used since early Roman times for various uses including to cap wine amphora and some people thought that the resulting use of wine tainted by lead gave people lead poisoning leading to dementia and death and possibly contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. A bit far fetched but at least we know that lead was available and widely mined and used since early times. If the dating is correct the woman's death would have occurred sometime in the early days of the formation of the Holy Roman Empire which leads me to suspect that the girl may have been from a Roman family rather than a family native to the area, because the burial was Roman or Christian if you will , rather than a pagan burial and the only people with extensive wealth in that area would have Roman ties either military or mercantile. Though the Roman Empire was on the wane I believe that it still had control of the southern part of England at the time.l
What a find. Some things are ment to happen so we can research things better
How about returning the remains to the original burial site after your analysis. It would be Sacrilegious for these remnants of a human soul to be filed away on a shelf in a basement!
I wonder, did they do any dna analysis? She was of European origin. Was she an original Briton? A Celt?
this is why im being cremated
Sparrow Hawk Me too.
Become an organ donor!
Sparrow Hawk Me too.
Good. No one would be interested in digging up your boring corpse anyway.
I want to be made into a pudding...a nice Christmas pudding preferably. Maybe a fine Easter pie! Yes, that would be nice. Bon appetite everyone!...lol
Ok so after testing and all that do they lay these people back to rest? I know she's been gone for a really long time but still we all deserve to stay in the resting place we chose for ourselves in life and also even if she didnt choose the spot who's to say that more than the 6 meters away that they dug out or even deeper are all her family members and i myself would like to stay with my loved ones even after death!! Just sayin'!
i agree with you but the problem is she is in a farmers field and he is using a tractor and digging it constantly to place crops so it has to be moved.
Learn proper punctuation. Just sayin'!
When old human remains were found near the boundry wall of our Church during repairs, we reburied them with all the trimmings, all the readings etc. From the position where they were found, they were originally paupers graves, so they will have had a better burial the second time.
What's wrong with being displayed under glass, in a museum for educational purposes?
Very interesting. Thanks for posting 👍
Was there any explanation as to why the bones where in wrong positions?
They was buried in lead to stop the plague but was nobles mainly that could afford it x
"The plague" was unknown in that century. You're 1100 years off.
As long as a coffin is old enough, it is perfectly OK to crack it open, right?
I think Caitlin over at, "Ask A Mortician" has a video or two on such questions.
Would be interesting to know where this lady was reburied?
This may be a dumb question but how much do these coffins weight?
BRAVO!BRAVISSIMO!!
I love the English.
Thank You. Greetings from England !
Thanks! Not often you hear that.
But WHY?
Makes you wonder what or who's buried in your back garden.
Not me. I already know.🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😃
@@MsAggie78 😂
Five rabbits, two cats and a hamster are buried in mine !!.
Would love to know if their was a settlement near by - church and buryal ground?
200-300 AD, highly doubt it. More than likely family burial grounds. Lead implies death from disease.
@@kimwhitehead9096 No, the rich buried their dead in lead coffins.
Ilchester was a roman town so I imagine there's a few located around there
This was fascinating. I dig stuff like this. It's history. I'm sure the ancestor doesn't mind us looking at her bones. She doesn't need them anymore, she's probably flying by now.
If my body was crushed in a coffin like that, I would appreciate my body at least being dug out of it.
Why? it's only a body and has nothing to do with you anymore, the avatar is dead.
The third century AD? Wow. Way older than I thought it was.
Wow that’s really interesting thanks for posting this.
Thanks for the update
Would it be an earthquake or something like that hence the bones had moved from their original state? Very interesting .
I'll say I didn't know hobnails went that far back. Fascinating.
All these commenters don't seem to understand how archaeology works. No y'all...she didn't get put back where she was found. She also isn't going to be reburied anywhere else unless family claims her and petitions for the return of her body. Which isn't likely to happen particularly considering the early time period she was interred. She's a part of History and Science now. She's not there anymore, it's nothing but a vehicle left behind.
Did they reburie her. I hope she didnt just end up in a glass case somewhere. She was buried with love and should be again.
The lady in lead is heavy you see, but take a peek
Your coffin is here, it's just you and me, It's what I wanna see
But I hardly know this beauty that here lies
I wonder how you looked when you were alive
In ancient times it was believed that lead would hold the spirit and the soul and it would not be able to get through whoever this is may have been a wicked person
johnnysmartin64 and they dug her back up!?! 🤦🏾♂️
yeah in ancient times people also thought the earth is flat...oh wait some still do today lmao
Doubt it, would be foolish superstitions if that’s what they thought
I wonder if people a couple of thousand years from now will be as amazed at our corpses.
RIP is a relative term.
Wasn't that a song from Chris DeBurge.... Lady in lead.. Is dancing with me..
I just watched a U Tube lead coffin found in Queens NY. She was 160 years old and the reconstructed her face and identified her
Did it stink inside the dirt and body area?
Doubtful.
Being in a lead casket usually is because the body is emitting radiation could possibly kill 100-300 years after burial they must have checked her first assuming they weren’t wearing hazmat suits 🤔
You DID notice that this burial happened 1700 years ago, right?
Just brought strong to mind these few lyrics...
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
To open up the places I got hurt
~Genesis song: ''Digging In The Dirt'' album: "Us" (1992)
These accents are amazing!
I'm curious it's 2021 right now this was made in 2015 did they ever figure out who the lady was or any information about the lady
How long does someone have to be dead before their grave becomes an archeological site? I certainly hope these bones were returned to the earth and not locked away in a cupboard somewhere.
Yeah, those archelogists know a thing or two ;-)
Arrrrg, I get frustrated that they can’t find out more. But I guess a thousand years can take a toll on a body.
If she was a high statues grave why is there no finds
Such as what?
I think this may not be her original burial site, because the Romans usually buried high-status people in crypts. Perhaps she was displayed as a saint in a local church, and hidden during the Reformation.
they assume everyone is high status
@@semiramisbonaparte1627 right
Bloody hell how did the get all that lead back in them times
'those times'.....The Romans had at least 5 lead mines in the Uk in full production.
In the 3rd Century AD there were more resources on the planet.
They nicked it off Church roofs
@@DinseeNuffin haha you are right there, and most probably the churches nicked it from others as they stole gold etc from others 🤣
They must have some time in there hands, tiny little brushing the soil , must have taken days!!
I would have sorted it with me dyson animal v6 hand held Hoover, there fore finishing work earlier, then gone for a couple of pints .
Ian Davies Ian Davies 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I wonder how much of the soil in the coffin is just the lady herself.
Wow, 3AD. What an amazing find!
Had to have been an awful expensive coffin back then. Same ole story back then , no one gets out alive.
Thanks for the video guys it's really great video story
Interesting how we can now have a glimpse into the past .
The police were baffled? Inconceivable!
They ar baffled when they get up not exactly sherlocks
Awesome thank you for sharing 👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏❤️❤️
WOW fascinating!
And to all the idiots criticising them for digging it up....the body is in a farmers field, getting crushed every time a tractor goes over. It was found by ACCIDENT. A body should not be left in a field just because your a moron. The first thing they try to do is find out what's there, see if its in danger of damage, then check its not a recent burial. That takes time and cannot be done in a field. once removed, we have NO IDEA WHAT SO EVER of how to rebury them according to their own religeon. If you put them in a modern graveyard, that's Christian holy ground and is disrespect to their original pagan beliefs.
Christian Buczko ....because “your” a moron...LOL..classic!!!
The remains were dated at 300 AD, and prepared in a manner that suggests those of a high status Christian individual, most likely an aristocrat or a nun. I think that after archaeological analysis, it would be perfectly acceptable to re-bury her in a Christian grave yard.
no you are the moron Christian is correct shut the hell up and sit down
It said nothing about Christian individuals. You are projecting your own beliefs and life philosophy into something that is just a 10 min. blurb. There were still a lot of Celtic tribes and Viking raiders and pagans and tree worshipers, so take it easy Billy Fallwell send me a $1,000 seed donation so you can enter the realm of heaven. Leave the archaeology to those that want to learn the truth without an agenda of some kind
That was meant for sarah gray
Àt 1.32 they'd been growing potatoes on her for years.
userwl2850 and goes to mc donalds
userwl2850 g&c
You'd be amazed at some of the things they've found in farmer's fields in Britain...the whole damn country is one big archaeological dig!
My grandma said if I didn't wash behind my ears I'd grow taters...she was right...lol
Does anyone else have the song ‘lady in red’ going through their head?
I'm not sure why they are taking photos standing proudly in front of someones disturbed remains...
That was very interesting.
This was really great to watch, super interesting
Wasn’t that a song title in the 80’s.. yea “ the lady in lead”.
This would be the opening scene of a killer virus movie.
imagine dying and ending up here
Before you begin the comments section...know that there is an over representation of cemetery operators and contractors represented therein. Thank you and enjoy the comments.
Interesting find... Follow-up? New suscriber from Texas.
3 years later: What part???
@@sld_gloccem As stated in the video, there would be a follow-up about the lead coffin. Where do I find it?
Eternal rest has an expiry date apparently.
It’s hard to believe these scientists are handling that lead without a mask.
It was 2013. Years before DJTrumpsky screwed up the covid-19 response!
The lead is covered in a corrosion layer, and being a heavy element it is unlikely to create an aerosol, there is plenty of evidence from bullets and bullet fragments that even if you have a sizeable chunk of lead in you this doesn’t result in high plasma lead levels because the body encloses it in a ‘granulation’ layer (proteins and suchlike) to isolate you from the ‘foreign body’. People who get lead poisoning usually get it from drinking mildly acid water or cider or suchlike which has lead dissolved in it.
these aren't scientists these are grave robbers interested in only one thing__ what valuables they can steal off the dead and call "artifacts and sell at a profit all in the name of "science"
@@williammoses6232 artifacts from digs like these are almost always catalogued, analyzed, then curated. Unauthorized folks digging up remains like these are the ones selling and profitting off them. Not the scientists.
@@erichoppe9876 Eric, you are way off topic here. Control your hate and educate yourself. You may find out that you are not correct. If after looking at the facts you still believe that, I feel so sorry for your blindness. Stay safe!