[Isaac D Rainey]

Other than Towton, do any of you know any sites or graves showing injuries in Britain? Anything from before Towton will do as long as there is at least one publication attached to it.

[Pieter B.]

[Isaac D Rainey]

Those sort of examples are perfect. Burials that show possible combat injuries are also useful, thanks.

[Matthew Bunker]

I've just finished "Given to the Ground" http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/given-to-the-ground.html which is a study of the mass grave of 54 'Viking Age' Scandinavian men executed in Dorset.

All were decapitated but many also exhibit defensive injuries.

A similar English site has been excavated in St John's College, Oxford:-
http://www.tvas.co.uk/downloads/3D-Trauma1.pdf


29 of the 405 skeletons excavated from the cemetery at Fishergate in York exhibited weapons injuries:-

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS...20_226.pdf



There are many cases of individuals in Anglo Saxon cemeteries exhibiting injuries (some perimortem, some which healed) .
Reynold's "Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs" details some, as does S C Hawkes' "Weapons and Warfare in Anglo Saxon England".


And then, of course, there's Wisby., where 1800 Gotlanders were killed. The three common graves there have yielded about 1200 individuals, exhibiting injuries ranging from projectile attack to dismemberment. One individual had both legs and one arm severed. 65% of the injuries were on lower limbs. c. 50% had head injuries as well.

http://strangeremains.com/2014/11/23/the-rema...al-battle/

http://www.eaines.com/archaeology/the-bioarch...l-warfare/

[Pieter B.]