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    cwealm

    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    DIG:2003 #140
    A skeleton in the bowl hole graveyard

    What this skeleton told us: Evidence

    A 12 to 18 month old child with milk and adult teeth present.

    Interpretation of the evidence

    Infant mortality was likely very high in Anglo-Saxon Britain. This infant probably died from a communicable disease (infection).

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

    cwealm as found, select for full photo

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

    The archaeologist's drawing of cwealm

    Where cwealm was found in the graveyard

    cwealm

    Death, murder, plague.

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