A Medieval Skeleton Was Shattered in 167 Places. He May Be The First Documented Trebuchet Victim
Researchers found 167 fractures and say a single high-speed impact from a trebuchet is the best explanation for the young man’s death.
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On August 5, in Berlin, a scientific paper reopened a seven-century-old case. In front of the 25th European Congress of the Paleopathology Association, Jo Buckberry, a bioarchaeologist at Bradford University in the United Kingdom, presented an unusual case. It was the "Skeletal 150", exhumed in 1997 under the royal chapel of Stirling Castle, Scotland. The man, who died between 22 and 34 years old, bears 167 fractures at the time of death. Accord…
Deadly hit: Scottish researchers find skeleton with 167 bone fractures. The injuries are probably from a Trebuchet catapult in 1304.
Analysis of the damage to the remains of a 14th-century man discovered at Stirling Castle in Scotland has revealed a very high probability that he died from a trebuchet attack, a siege weapon that throws large stones. This is believed to be the first instance where a person who died from a trebuchet attack has been identified through archaeological evidence. Read more...
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