{"id":666019,"date":"2026-01-01T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666019\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:31:10","slug":"intriguing-finds-could-solve-mystery-of-women-in-medieval-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666019\/","title":{"rendered":"Intriguing finds could solve mystery of women in medieval cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The objects have been taken to Cardiff University&#8217;s lab. Conservator Clare Emerson is painstakingly removing the dirt of the dig from an ornate copper brooch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;d have to do some more analysis, but it&#8217;s probably bronze,&#8221; she says.  &#8220;Also we think it was possibly gilded, which would be a coating of gold over the top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ends, she explains, were covered in green enamel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This would have been a very decorative brooch.  I think it&#8217;s a very special find for the site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside this piece of medieval bling, the team have also unearthed a pin made from bone with a detailed pattern and a comb intricately carved from antler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And there are some exquisite, multicoloured glass beads. Measuring about 3mm across, each one is a miniature delight. They were possibly stitched onto clothing or attached to a piece of jewellery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The objects have been taken to Cardiff University&#8217;s lab. Conservator Clare Emerson is painstakingly removing the dirt of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-666019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115817734631351758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}