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Early Medieval human remains
Fragmentary skeleton represented by cranial, cervical and thoracic vertebrae, rib frags, metacarpals, r complete tibia and distal fiblua fragments, l prox femur, tibia and dist fiblua and metatarsals. Juvenile, probable female, aged 11-13 years, based on incomplete bone fusions, unerupted M3, lambdoid and coronla sutures open, femoral head fused, fusion ongoing in tibia, radial head unfused.
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Site Name: Brownslade Burrows, Pembrokeshire
Notes: From land adjacent to Brownslade Barrow Possible cist containing elements of 2 skeletons, a female juvenile and an infant. Head of the juvenile was to the west. A 'litter of angular stones might represent a heavily disturned cist associated with one or both of these burials. Orientated ENE-WSW