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    Norþan-hymbre

    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    DIG:2004 #265
    A skeleton in the bowl hole graveyard

    What this skeleton told us: Evidence

    A 14 to 16 year old teenager/adolescent. His/her teeth had evidence of plaque and tooth decay on them.

    Interpretation of the evidence

    Child mortality was likely high in Anglo-Saxon Britain. This teenager/adolescent could have died from a communicable disease (infection) but, had they survived into adulthood, they would have probably developed more of the dental problems that so many of these skeletons display. The fact that he/she had rotten teeth suggests sugar in their diet.

    A skeleton with codename Norþan-hymbre as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    Norþan-hymbre as found, select for full photo

    A drawing of skeleton with codename Norþan-hymbre as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    The archaeologist's drawing of Norþan-hymbre

    Where Norþan-hymbre was found in the graveyard

    Norþan-hymbre

    Northumbrians. At the time there were also Súþan-hymbre or Southumbrians (Mercians); the river Humber dividing the kingdoms. Though Bernicia was the name of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom where Northumbria now lies around AD 600.

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