THE HUMAN REMAINS FROM HIBALDSTOW, HUMBERSIDE.
Author(s): T Waldron
Six adult skeletons were recovered from this Roman site, four female and two male. Both males were aged at least 45 years at death; three of the females were aged between 25 and 35 and the fourth was too fragmentary to permit an age to be estimated. Heights were calculated from long bones measurements for two males and two females; they were 1.69 and 1.72, and 1.54 and 1.56 m respectively. Four of the skeletons showed signs of dental disease and one (a male) had arthritis of the hand and spine. Two of the female skeletons had spondylolysis, in one affecting the fifth lumbar vertebra and in the other the fourth lumbar. This is an unusually high prevalence of this condition but, because of the small numbers involved, is most likely a chance observation.
- Report Number:
- 17/1990
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 10
- Keywords:
- Human Bone Human Remains
