Template:Did you know nominations/Updown early medieval cemetery

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 19:52, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Updown early medieval cemetery

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... that Sonia Chadwick Hawkes led a rescue excavation at Updown early medieval cemetery in 1976 because the site was threatened by a planned pipeline? Source: "The landowners ... realized that a pipe-line pre-arranged to go through in early summer 1976 would threaten the cemetery's southern side, and initiated a rescue excavation. This ... was carried out in the Easter vacation by myself. S. C. Hawkes (1976). "Interim Report by Mrs. S. C. Hawkes, MA., F.SA., on the Excavations at Eastry". Archaeologia Cantiana. 92: 247–248. ISSN 0066-5894. Wikidata Q116693287.
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Created by Richard Nevell (talk). Self-nominated at 15:53, 26 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Updown early medieval cemetery; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
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@Richard Nevell: Good article. Though, should "No buildings or associated settlement have been found in association with the cemetery." be cited. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:17, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

@Onegreatjoke: It certainly should have been referenced – I've now added one that was used for a similar statement later in the article. Richard Nevell (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Approve. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:57, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I am surprised that the hook does not focus on the Updown girl. That part is touching as well as interesting. Surtsicna (talk) 17:07, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm glad you found the part about Updown girl interesting, it's an important story to tell. There are two reasons why this hook doesn't focus on Updown girl. Firstly, there is a draft article in the works about her which while cover the burial and the research in more detail. I'll lend a hand with that, and I'd like to bring that to DYK as well. Secondly, since the article is about the cemetery rather than Updown girl I thought that a hook about her might come across as a curiosity; a hook about her for an article about her feels like a different dynamic. I may have overthought it, but your question gave me a chance to explain! Choosing a different focus for the hook also gave me a little more breathing room as I think a hook about Updown girl will need to be carefully crafted, and a focus on the rescue excavation was easier to put together. Richard Nevell (talk) 18:31, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I am very eager to read more about her. Is she frequently discussed independently of the cemetery? Surtsicna (talk) 18:44, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: Before the research using ancient DNA published last year, I don't think so – as far as I can tell the most significant coverage was in a chapter by Martin Welch published in 2008 which deals primarily with the cemetery. Now, there is the aDNA study, a summary piece in Current Archaeology, and news coverage of the results. I wouldn't necessarily say that she is discussed independently from the cemetery because it's important context, especially the family relations and the treatment of the burial, but there are pieces where the focus is on Updown girl. I believe there another research article due to be published sometime this year which will discuss Updown girl in more detail. That may be the point at which Draft:Updown Girl gets published. Richard Nevell (talk) 19:06, 27 March 2023 (UTC)