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Kristina Killgrove

Iron Age woman was buried with a knife stuck into her grave. Archaeologists aren't sure why.

A woman excavates a grave site.

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered an ancient iron pocketknife jabbed into the burial of an Iron Age woman. The cemetery, which dates to between 500 B.C. and 400 A.D., contained at least 50 burials, but this one was particularly unusual.

The people who buried the woman centuries ago "stuck the knife in; we don't know why, but it is clear that it is meant for the woman," Moa Gillberg, an archaeologist at Sweden's National Historical Museums, said in a translated statement.

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