1,400-Year-Old Anglo-Saxon Graveyard Found With 'Sand Silhouettes'

Archaeologists speculate that the seventh-century cemetery was once a part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia.

Construction workers in Suffolk, England, were shocked to discover 200 seventh-century graves eerily marked by ghostly shapes while preparing to build a housing development.

According to BBC News , the 1,400-year-old cemetery in Oulton near Lowestoft in Suffolk was once an Anglo-Saxon burial ground containing the remains of 200 men, women, and children, all believed to have been a part of the same farming community.

Many of the skeletons have been reduced to ashy stains or “sand silhouettes” as they were eaten away by the acidic soil around them. Indeed, no bones remain in many of the graves, but rather the dark outline of the corpse that was once laid there.

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