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October 17, 2019
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October 16, 2019

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    CODEWORD:

    briġd

    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    DIG:2003 #113
    A skeleton in the bowl hole graveyard

    What this skeleton told us: Evidence

    A child of around 2 years of age with both milk and adult teeth present.

    Interpretation of the evidence

    As child mortality was likely high in Anglo-Saxon Britain, this child probably died from a communicable disease (infection).

    A skeleton with codename briġd as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    briġd as found, select for full photo

    A drawing of skeleton with codename briġd as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    The archaeologist's drawing of briġd

    Where briġd was found in the graveyard

    briġd

    ‘Fluctuation of colour’.

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