"The battle of Towton - Nasty, brutish and not that short" Topic

"THE soldier now known as Towton 25 had survived battle before. A healed skull fracture points to previous engagements. He was old enough—somewhere between 36 and 45 when he died—to have gained plenty of experience of fighting. But on March 29th 1461, his luck ran out.

Towton 25 suffered eight wounds to his head that day. The precise order can be worked out from the direction of fractures on his skull: when bone breaks, the cracks veer towards existing areas of weakness. The first five blows were delivered by a bladed weapon to the left-hand side of his head, presumably by a right-handed opponent standing in front of him. None is likely to have been lethal…."
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Amicalement
Armand

Interesting article!

The author obviously has never opened the excavation report from Visby – every skeleton is recorded in some detail, each plate giving each skeleton its own colour & number, even when jumbled together. What has happened to the remains after the excavation & examination is another matter, over a century in boxes in a museum basement tends to get things messed up.

Glad you have enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

The article is picking out only one skeleton from the grave. There is extensive detail in the book on the mass grave from multiple specialists.

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Thanks Tango