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At least 20 bodies from the medieval period were found by a team of archaeologists in the parish of Santa Maria Maior, in Lisbon, but the group believes that they "will appear more," Lusa told the project coordinator. Until now we have 20 [corpos identificados] but maybe even more will appear, because we have only the first level of tombs discovered, "said archaeologist and project coordinator of the installation of ecopoints of the mayor of Lisbon, Vanessa Filipe
The cemetery was found in the area that connects the street Martim Moniz to Madalena Street, in the parish of Santa Maria Maior, and the archaeologist explained that 's it was discovered on June 26, in a job in which the team of archaeologists do "archaeological record and diagnosis" areas "before the installation of ecopoints."
" We are almost certain to have five more [corpos]"he added, adding that archaeological remains" for at least two more weeks. "There are seven people working on the find and Vanessa Filipe said that it is a "necropolis of the times" medieval ", dating from the" fourteenth century, early fifteenth century ".
The excavations carried out led the team to believe that the cemetery was associated with a hermitage "which belonged to the Marquis of Cascais" and that "the cemetery would be turned" on the side where the bodies are buried, explained the coordinator of the project. The necropolis is "totally Christian", since "all the bodies" were buried with "head towards the west and feet towards it, so that when they rise they go towards the spring ", says Vanessa Filipe, adding that there are other cemeteries
The bodies will remain with the team of archaeologists" over the next three years "and expertise will be carried out in partnership with the Center of Archeology of Lisbon (CAL), where the bodies go after studied
Vanessa Filipe explained that archaeologists can not remove bodies from the grave after they have have been found and, therefore, there is an anthropologist to do so and record "all the pathologies associated with the bodies."
Anthropologist Sónia Ferro tells Lusa that the cemetery "extends to the outside of the fence", but the team can not dig into the "affected party" for the construction of ecopoints. "Of the burials, half are men, half are women, all adults except one child," he said, adding that the "child's body" is the only burial with a pathology more serious "
. the child's body "had an infection of the bones all", which "may be consistent with tuberculosis", and the remaining bodies show "normal signs of aging".
The researcher explained that "[os corpos]" adding that "only an individual has a coin in his hand, which was normal in medieval terms, sometimes to pay the trip on the other side".
In accordance with the explanation of Sónia Ferro, archeologist Vasco Vieira said that it is possible to perceive that "it is a cemetery for the neighborhood" and that the discovery the More curious was attached to a body that had "Stones embedded in the mouth", believing that the team that "was strung" at the time of the burial.
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