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    ȳð-beġeata

    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    DIG:2002 #70
    A skeleton in the bowl hole graveyard

    What this skeleton told us: Evidence

    A young woman around 20 to 25 years of age represented by a partial skeleton but with a well-preserved skull. The teeth look mostly healthy. There is plaque on some teeth, and notches in her incisor teeth suggest possible activity related wear.

    Interpretation of the evidence

    Unusually for a Bowl Hole skeleton, this young lady had healthy teeth. The notches in her incisor teeth indicate the repeated holding of something between her teeth perhaps related to an activity like making baskets. There is no evidence of the cause of her young death but both pregnancy and childbirth were not without their risks in the Anglo-Saxon period.

    A skeleton with codename ȳð-beġeata as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    ȳð-beġeata as found, select for full photo

    A drawing of skeleton with codename ȳð-beġeata as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    The archaeologist's drawing of ȳð-beġeata

    Where ȳð-beġeata was found in the graveyard

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