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October 17, 2019
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October 17, 2019

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    CODEWORD:

    Rūm-heort

    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    DIG:2004 #283
    A skeleton in the bowl hole graveyard

    What this skeleton told us: Evidence

    A 12 to 18 month old child. Milk and adult teeth were present.

    Interpretation of the evidence

    Child mortality was likely high in Anglo-Saxon Britain so that many did not survive into adulthood. Many infants died in utero, during birth, or shortly thereafter from a variety of reasons, such as infection.

    A skeleton with codename Rūm-heort as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    Rūm-heort as found, select for full photo

    A drawing of skeleton with codename Rūm-heort as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    The archaeologist's drawing of Rūm-heort

    Where Rūm-heort was found in the graveyard

    Rūm-heort

    Generous. Literally “spacious hearted”.

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