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Wīcing
October 18, 2019
Ġeþeahtere
October 18, 2019

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    CODEWORD:

    Þunor

    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    DIG:2005 #340
    A skeleton in the bowl hole graveyard

    What this skeleton told us: Evidence

    A neonate (newborn baby) aged between 40 weeks gestation and 1 month old. Only milk teeth are present.

    Interpretation of the evidence

    Infant mortality was likely very high in Anglo-Saxon Britain, with many infants dying in utero, during birth, or shortly thereafter from a variety of infections.

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

    Þunor as found, select for full photo

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

    The archaeologist's drawing of Þunor

    Where Þunor was found in the graveyard

    Þunor

    Thunder. Līġetu; lightning from Līġ flame, fire.

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