Editing Eadgyth (section)

==Tomb==
[[File:Blick in die Grabkiste von 1510.jpg|thumb|View inside the lead coffin]]
Initially buried in the St Maurice monastery, Edith's tomb since the 16th century has been located in [[Magdeburg Cathedral]].<ref name=bristol>[https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2010/7073.html "Bones confirmed as those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth", University of Bristol, June 17, 2010]</ref> Long regarded as a [[cenotaph]], a lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building. An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510.<ref name=athelstan/> The fragmented and incomplete bones were examined in 2009, then brought to [[Bristol]], England, for tests in 2010.

The investigations at Bristol, applying [[Technetium-99m|isotope]] tests on tooth enamel, checked whether she was born and brought up in [[Wessex]] and [[Mercia]], as written history indicated.<ref name="GuardianEadgyth20Jan10" /><ref name="DiscoveryNewsSatter">{{Cite web|url=http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/english-princess-bones.html |title=Discovery News |last=Satter |first=Raphael G. |date=20 January 2010 |work=Bones of early English princess found in Germany |access-date=21 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123012854/http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/english-princess-bones.html |archive-date=23 January 2010 }} Retrieved from Internet Archive 14 February 2014.</ref> Testing on the bones revealed that they are the remains of Eadgyth, from study made of the enamel of the teeth in her upper jaw.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100617043529/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/bristol/10332975.stm German cathedral bones 'are Saxon queen Eadgyth, BBC News, 16 June 2010] Retrieved from Internet Archive 14 February 2014.</ref> Testing of the enamel revealed that the individual entombed at Magdeburg had spent time as a youth in the [[chalk]]y uplands of [[Wessex]].<ref>''The Times'', Simon de Bruxelles, 17 June 2010</ref> The bones are the oldest found of a member of English royalty.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2010/7073.html| title = Bones confirmed as those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth, University of Bristol, 17 June 2010}}</ref>

Following the tests the bones were re-interred in a new titanium coffin in her tomb at Magdeburg Cathedral on 22 October 2010.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,724628,00.html Königin Editha im Magdeburger Dom bestattet] in: [[Spiegel Online]] vom 22. Oktober 2010</ref>