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Early Medieval human remains
An incomplete and highly fragmentary inhumation of an adult possible female aged 33-45 years (extended, supine) in a plain grave. The torso is crushed.
Elements present: skull fragments, mandible, maxilla fragments (pathology: possible healed abscess?), loose teeth, tarsals and carpals, phalanges, unsided femur, L and R distal humerus, ribs, L proximal tibia, fibula, radius, scapula, L distal ulna, misc. unidentified fragments.
Animal bone, Roman pottery, and 2 'burial pebbles' were found in the grave.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
95.56H/1.768
Find Information
Site Name: Great House Farm, Llandough
Grid Reference: ST 1681 7331
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1994
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