Mass frog burial baffles experts at iron age site near Cambridge: An unprecedented trove of 8,000 bones presents archaeologists at a road dig with a prehistoric mystery

Guardian (UK) ^ | Sunday, June 12, 2022 | Dalya Alberge

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Aerial view of the archaeological site excavated at Bar Hill.

Photograph: ©Mola/HeadlandInfrastructure

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Amphibian ‘death pit’ filled with 8,000 bones unearthed in Iron Age village
By Owen Jarus published 3 days ago
https://www.livescience.com/amphibian-death-pit-iron-age-village

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In before, or, well, at the same time as the cartoon singing frog reference.

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If we took the bones out, it wouldn’t be crunchy!

[Big Red Badger]

Singing Frogs,,,
French I’d imagine.

[SunkenCiv]

They put the whiz in Whizzo.

[BenLurkin]

Please tell us this road project is not going to be held up by frog bones.

[no-to-illegals]

Theory ……. As with snakes of Ireland…. The frogs became a nuisance ?

[ryderann]

Was there an outbreak of warts in the village and blamed on the frogs?

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If the researchers find fillet of a fenny snake, eye of newt, wWool of bat, tongue of dog, adder's fork, blind-worm's sting, lizard's leg and howlet's wing, they'll know what was really going on.

[martin_fierro]

I lol'd

[Alas Babylon!]

Because they wouldn't stop singing!

[Gay State Conservative]

Maybe frogs were sacred back then.

[butlerweave]

Frogs jumped in and couldn’t get out

[JBW1949]

Were they all missing leg bones????

[JBW1949]

Used to eat frog legs quite often when my kids were young...My son and I would tell my daughters that we’d only cut off one leg of each frog so that it would just swim in circles and we could get it easy the next time we went out...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Anyone remember that classic B horror movie “No Blade of Grass”. A frog infestation was a major plot point.

[Wuli]

The people were suffering from some sort of epidemic/pandemic and thought the frogs were the source - just a guess.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Frogpox!!