Posted on 04/05/2022 6:01:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
This is the face of a "rolling stone" who spent his life wandering across medieval Scotland before (most likely) meeting an unpleasant death, left to lay in the remains of a Roman toilet for centuries.
Archeologists recently took a closer look at the skeletal remains of nine adults and five children discovered beneath a bathhouse at the former-Roman fort in Cramond near Edinburgh, Scotland, piecing together their story using a bunch of bioarchaeological techniques and isotopic data.
These remains are literally “bog bodies,” not because they were preserved in the acidic, low oxygen environment of a wetland, but because these bodies were actually discovered in what the British often call a bog: a toilet, aka latrine, that was used by Roman soldiers when they occupied Scotland centuries before.
First discovered in 1975, it was initially assumed that the skeletal remains dated from the 14th century CE, perhaps victims of the Black Death. However, new radiocarbon dating showed they were actually some 800 years older, dating to the 6th century CE. This was a tumultuous but little-understood, time in British history; a fact that is sewn into the physical make-up of the skeletons.
Recently reported in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, isotopic analysis of their teeth gave a surprisingly detailed history of these people's lives, providing sharp insights into their diet and geographic origins.
(Excerpt) Read more at iflscience.com ...
What a shi##ty way to go.
Here lies shit head.
Far be it from me to assume what women find attractive in a man, but I’m thinking; he may well have been killed by jealous husband.
He's about the right age...
I’ve read up on these big bodies before. One was a woman that was fairly preserved.
Maybe he dropped his phone and fell in ,LOL
14th century CE
Ah yes, the “CE” form of dating used by leftist communist college professors who seek to remove any reference to Jesus Christ from our heritage. I first encountered this BCE/CE nonsense about 20 years in college. It’s hard to believe the lengths the communists have gone to in order to tear our society asunder and to remove any reference to God.
What’s even sadder is that we let these rotten bastards get away with it.
Kind of sad, actually.
Nice looking fellow. Far far better looking than Hunter Biden or anyone else in the Biden Crime Family.
The DJT family. however, looks better.
You can read all about it in this amusing book (I keep it in the half-bath for guests). It has photos of many surviving examples, plus a history of conveniences, public and private. I did not know before that the Romans used a sponge on a stick for sanitary purposes, and that there was a sad story in Seneca of a German mercenary who thought it was edible and died of it . . .
Yeah, someone really wiped him out.
And it’s Scotland, so, y’know, drunk, trying to upchuck...
Stuff it.
I’ve found most of those lads don’t bother to try to find a convenience . . . at least not in Gleska. Shower o’ eejits, yon.
Rough time to be born into.
Re “ It’s hard to believe the lengths the communists have gone to”
Well… they’ve been telling us for years what they were going to do.
Folks should listened.
…And then forcibly stopped them.
Article says the woman and child suffered a “blow to the back of their heads”.
Some type of war hammer or club, probably. Sounds like they were either executed or maybe just plain murdered.
LOL
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