The child was buried face-down and with an iron padlock on its foot.
Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed the 400-year-old skeleton of a young child buried face-down with an iron padlock on its foot – seemingly to stop its rising from the dead.
"The padlock shows people were afraid of this child after its death," Dariusz Poliński, an archaeologist at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, told Live Science. No other child skeletons buried like this have been found at the site, and it is likely this is the only known example of such a burial in Europe, Poliński said.Image 1 of 5Village graveyardPoliński has led excavations at Pień for several years, and his team has discovered about 100 graves there.
This lesser graveyard also seems to have been the place where"abandoned souls" were buried away from the church, even if they could afford a better funeral, Poliński said. Undead childThe team also hopes to analyze the DNA of the newfound remains. It’s not yet known if the child was male or female, Poliński said.
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