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    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    DIG:2003 #194
    A skeleton in the bowl hole graveyard

    What this skeleton told us: Evidence

    A neonate (newborn baby) of some 38 weeks gestation. Teeth were not present but a jaw bone recovered from the immediately adjacent grave that contained Skeleton 185 is consistent with a neonatal age and is likely part of this individual. It is possible that this is a stillborn child buried adjacent to its mother, as skeleton 185 is an adult female.

    Interpretation of the evidence

    Infant mortality was likely high in Anglo-Saxon Britain, with many infants dying in utero, during birth, or shortly thereafter from a variety of health problems, for example infections. Double obstetric deaths (mother and child) were likely common.

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

    Galdor as found, select for full photo

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

    The archaeologist's drawing of Galdor

    Where Galdor was found in the graveyard

    Galdor

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