WHEN WOMEN FOUGHT
Female Bones Recovered on . Battlefield. AFTER NEARLY 600 YEARS. (KeceiTcd 10 a.m.) BERLIN, January 12. A Swedish archaeologist has made a remarkable discovery in the island of Gotland, in the Baltic Sea. He excavated from a common grave the victors and vanquished who fought in a battle on •July 27, 1361.
Many skeletons and pieces of armour were unearthed, the astonishing fact being that between the medieval breastplates in a considerable number of cases were bones, not of men. but of women.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 10, 13 January 1931, Page 7
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