Skeletons believed to be of a man and a woman about the same age were found holding hands when they were recently unearthed in a mysterious grave site in England.
The University of Leicester archaeologists who discovered the skeletons believe they have been resting beneath the "lost chapel of St. Morell" near the village of Hallaton in Leicestershire, England, for 700 years, Good Morning America reported.
Eleven skeletons have been found at the site so far and dated to the 14th century. Their whereabouts have scientists wondering why these particular people were buried at the Chapel of St. Morrell instead of the main village church, the Leicester Mercury reported.
"There is a perfectly good church in Hallaton. This leads us to wonder if the chapel could have served as some sort of special place of burial at the time," lead researcher Vicky Score of the University of Leicester said in a statement.
Score said similar sites where couples were apparently buried together in the same grave have been discovered elsewhere in Leicester.
The church where the skeletons were discovered is believed to have been a stop during ancient pilgrimages. The scientists have hypothesized that the people may have been pilgrims; another theory is that they could have been criminals or foreigners or died of disease, resulting in their burial at a site separate from the main church.
Local historian John Morrison helped archaeologists find the chapel based on his research.
"Antiquarians over the ages have referred to a chapel somewhere in Hallaton," said Morrison, according to the Mercury. "It was a case of piecing evidence together and then getting in geo-physicists to take images of the land from above to locate the spot for our dig."
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