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Does this skull belong to a soldier of the Battle of Hastings? 1,000-year-old remains found...
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| 5-22-14
| Sarah Griffiths
Posted on 05/22/2014 7:01:56 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Full headline: Does this skull belong to a soldier of the Battle of Hastings? 1,000-year-old remains found near famous battlefield reveal man was hacked six times in the head from behind
Remains were found Lewes, East Sussex - around 20 miles from the famous battlefield - on the site of a medieval hospital
They belong to a 45-year-old-man who took six sword blows to the top of his head before dying
Scientists used radio carbon dating to conclude that the man was probably involved in fighting at the time of the Norman invasion
They think he was likely British because of the way he was buried
No bones have previously been recovered of anyone who fought and died in the battle of 1066 and experts are excited by the discovery
The skull forms part of a skeleton that was first dug up in 1994 during excavations in Lewes, East Sussex - around 20 miles from the famous battlefield.
Bones were originally sent to experts at the University of York as part of preparations to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the Battle of Lewes.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 1066; ancientautopsies; battlehastings; battleofhastings; battleofsenlac; dbcooperfound; eastsussex; godsgravesglyphs; haroldgodwinson; haroldii; jimmyhoffafound; kingharoldii; lewes
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Quite a find, but hard to prove.
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:01:56 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: SunkenCiv
Hastings was a tough day for this Brit.
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:02:37 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: Pharmboy
who took six sword blows to the top of his head before dying That is an official 'bad hair' day. Ouch.
/johnny
To: Pharmboy
but they still haven’t found the bullet that killed Vince Foster......
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:12:43 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: Pharmboy
How much different this battle would have been if there were formations of gays and women...
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:12:56 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: JRandomFreeper
Gives a new meaning to blow me.
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:17:26 PM PDT
by
ExpatGator
(I hate Illinois Nazis!)
To: SunkenCiv
If it had a arrow through the eye — it could have been Harold.
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:17:57 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Pharmboy
“six blows to the top of the head”
He was pretty well smitten. Smited? Smote?
(”Stay down Henry, you stubborn git!”)
Smatted?
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:36:04 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: Pharmboy
6 whacks w a sword?!?!
If not for the evidence of the damage to the skull I would have suggested wimpy swordsman...but...DAMN!
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:43:49 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: G Larry
Mama. I think my head hurts!
To: tumblindice
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:53:37 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: G Larry
“Merely a flesh wound...”
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:54:16 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: Pharmboy
“Its only a flesh wound.”
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:54:20 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:55:12 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: G Larry
HA! Only four seconds separate geniuses...
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:55:53 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: Pharmboy
It certainly demonstrates the violence of the period.The Wars of the Roses were just as nasty.
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:56:38 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: G Larry
To: Pharmboy
man was hacked six times in the head from behind Must have been a government worker who committed suicide.
-PJ
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posted on
05/22/2014 7:57:34 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Pharmboy; MeshugeMikey; Jane Long; crosslink; RitaOK; xzins; All
Workplace violence was cutting edge, even back then.
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posted on
05/22/2014 8:02:52 PM PDT
by
Graewoulf
(Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: Pharmboy
They think he was likely British because of the way he was buried
The fact that it took six blows to the head to kill him means he was probably a Scot.
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posted on
05/22/2014 8:12:30 PM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(BS, MS, PhD and a BMF besides)
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