They were TOUGH in the old days!
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winterbadgerfrom an article originally published last summer
A skeleton discovered in Stirling Castle has shed new light on the violent life of a medieval knight.
Archaeologists believe that bones discovered under the stone-paved floor of a chapel in the castle may have belonged to an English knight named Robert Morley, who is recorded as having died during a tournament in 1388.
Analysis of the skeleton shows that its owner was in his mid-twenties when he died and had suffered several serious wounds in earlier fights.
He had survived for some time with a large arrowhead lodged in his chest and bone re-growth around a dent in the front of his skull indicates that he had also recovered from a severe blow from an axe.
Remarkably, neither killed him.
Indeed, it would take rather more than one arrow or one axe to kill ROBERT MORELY! :-)
Only now, they think
(a) it wasn't the English knight Robert Morely
(b) they have a reconstruction of what he looked like.
A skeleton discovered in Stirling Castle has shed new light on the violent life of a medieval knight.
Archaeologists believe that bones discovered under the stone-paved floor of a chapel in the castle may have belonged to an English knight named Robert Morley, who is recorded as having died during a tournament in 1388.
Analysis of the skeleton shows that its owner was in his mid-twenties when he died and had suffered several serious wounds in earlier fights.
He had survived for some time with a large arrowhead lodged in his chest and bone re-growth around a dent in the front of his skull indicates that he had also recovered from a severe blow from an axe.
Remarkably, neither killed him.
Indeed, it would take rather more than one arrow or one axe to kill ROBERT MORELY! :-)
Only now, they think
(a) it wasn't the English knight Robert Morely
(b) they have a reconstruction of what he looked like.
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Date: 2010-05-20 07:20 pm (UTC)