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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number COLEM:1986.67.V772. Institution name Colchester Collections Object name human bone Description Human upper arm bone (humerous) showing damage from an axe or sword cut. Excavation of the legionary fortress ditch at Balkerne Lane in Colchester found gruesome evidence for the severe treatment of Britons in the years before the Boudican revolt of AD 60-61. This arm bone was one of thirty bones found that represented as least six individuals. Four were young males, aged between about seventeen and twenty-five. None of the bones showed signs of healing from their wounds, suggesting they were inflicted at the time of death. Their heads were likely decapitated and exhibited on stakes by the Romans. Production period Roman Material bone Dimensions length: 274.00 mm Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

COLEM:1986.67.V772.
Institution name

Colchester Collections
Object name

human bone
Description

Human upper arm bone (humerous) showing damage from an axe or sword cut. Excavation of the legionary fortress ditch at Balkerne Lane in Colchester found gruesome evidence for the severe treatment of Britons in the years before the Boudican revolt of AD 60-61. This arm bone was one of thirty bones found that represented as least six individuals. Four were young males, aged between about seventeen and twenty-five. None of the bones showed signs of healing from their wounds, suggesting they were inflicted at the time of death. Their heads were likely decapitated and exhibited on stakes by the Romans.
Production period

Roman
Material

bone
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Details