Great Dover Street woman facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Great Dover Street woman |
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| Period/culture | Roman |
| Discovered | 1996 165 Great Dover Street, Southwark, London, England. |
| Present location | Museum of London |
The Great Dover Street woman is the skeleton of a Romano-British woman discovered in excavations at 165 Great Dover Street, Southwark, London. She is suggested to have been a female gladiator, though this interpretation is contested.
Discovery and context
The discovery of the Great Dover Street woman was announced in 2000 following excavations in 1996 at the site by Museum of London Archaeology.
The grave was a cremation dating from the early 2nd- to mid-3rd-century AD, from a bustum funeral over a pit into which the remains eventually fell and were covered. This sort of burial is rare in Roman Britain. Eight unburnt ceramic lamps and eight tazze were added to the grave fill after the cremation. There was also evidence for molten glass, gold textile, burnt pine cones, chicken, bread, and dates forming part of the cremation ritual. Only a small amount of human bone survived. A fragment of surviving pelvis indicated that it was the skeleton of a female in her 20s.
See also
- Gladiatrix
