Eboracum Disinternment.

[Pertinax]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2091049,00.html

 

An interesting article in the Sunday Times regarding , what appears to be, a military unit that may have fallen foul of the somewhat unpleasant Geta . Note in particular the physiognomy of the victims , an average height of 5'10" with heavy bone structure.

[Gaius Octavius]

From the article, I think that you have a typo. You may have meant to say Carracalla not Geta.

Anyway, it was a novel way for C. to buy the farm.

Edited March 26, 2006 by Gaius Octavius

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From the article, I think that you have a typo. You may have meant to say Carracalla not Geta.

Anyway, it was a novel way for C. to buy the farm.

 

never type with a hangover

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

A detailed interesting article, but the second half of it was a bit dull just because we Romanophiles know all of that. Point-being, I wanted more info on the way the men/skeletons might have died.

Edited March 26, 2006 by FLavius Valerius Constantinus

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The full article in the Magazine extra is more detailed but is still full of conjecture as to why they died -however the info on stature is very interesting is it not-some soldiers (who obviously wernt rear echelon softies ) were rather tall and heavily built, granted they may be some "elite" unit but as the bones showed signs of heavy usage maybe they were not atypical....many remains analysed in Cruses "Roman Medicine" (in Britain)suggest very heavy manual labour due to the stress markings on vertebrae (though I emphasise the evidence was not suggesting medical deterioration or arthritic pain).