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

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A pocketknife was found in an Iron Age burial ground in southern Sweden .

The cemetery dates to between 500 B.C. and 400 A.D. It contained at least 50 burials.

The people who buried the woman "stuck the knife in; we don't know why," an archaeologist said.

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