Female Skeleton of Bronze Age found on construction site in UK

Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women have been found at a construction site in the UK.

Their bodies were found in Kent in a site planned for 41 homes along with animal bones, pottery and evidence of a Roman road during the necessary archaeological research, the BBC first reported.

One of the women – estimated to be 30-35 years old – was found in the grave, the report said. This position has been documented since the late Neolithic period, or about 5500-4700 years ago, and before the first Bronze Age, according to burial archaeologists.

Although some archaeologists examine the burial practices of the past by using fossils, they cannot say for sure why some people were buried in certain places.

Fragments of a skull found at the site are believed to be from a young woman from 500-400BC, reports the BBC, and will be archived by Kent County Council in a museum, along with other new finds.

Previous discoveries in England have led researchers to believe that Bronze Age Britons used a variety of methods to kill the deadincluding temporarily putting them in coffins, smoking them in a fire or removing their organs after death.

These new finds of Bronze Age remains and artefacts could give researchers more insight into a time when people began to explore the use of metal for tools, weapons, jewelery and ceremonial purposes – and marked a time when farming became more widespread in and around Kent, the south-east English region.