Over the course of the fifty years that have passed since the discovery of the cemetery, it has been “considered to be either a double burial of both a woman and a man,
Or alternatively, a weapon grave of a female, and therefore a proof of strong female leaders or even female warriors in the Late Iron Age Finland.”
A hiltless sword was put on the individual’s left hip, and the examination has established that the burial contained just one individual.
The individual was dressed in clothing that was considered to be typical of women during that time period.
The warrior may have been born with the sex-chromosomal aneuploidy XXY, also known as the Klinefelter syndrome, according to
