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| Tango01 | 09 Nov 2019 3:22 p.m. PST |
…Containing Human Jawbone, Remains of Newborn Lambs. "When archaeologists excavated a Scottish Iron Age site called the Cairns in 2016, they discovered a hollowed-out whale vertebra filled with a trio of unexpected objects: a human jaw bone and the remains of two newborn lambs. Dated to about the mid-2nd century A.D., the vessel was propped near the entrance of a broch, or type of roundhouse, and held in place by a pair of red deer antlers and a large grinding stone. "All this treatment appears to have been part of the measures employed to perform an act of closure of the broch," reads a statement from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute…"
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