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/ 2021
Archaeologists have been trying to work out why a sealed blue glass mystery bottle was left between a woman’s legs in a Hull burial. But that’s not all. They’re also trying to work out what on Earth was the liquid it contained. The History of Hull Burials at Trinity Burial Ground The term “Hull burials”, in this case, does not refer to Viking chiefs laid to rest within the innards of great wooden ships, but to people laid to rest in the port city of Kingston upon Hull, in England’s East Yorkshire. Hull was an important medieval wool port that in 1293 AD passed from the monks of Meaux Abbey to Edward I, king of England, at which time Hull
