Ancient Trebuchet Victim Revealed in a 14th-Century Skeleton
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Archaeologists studying Skeleton 150 beneath Stirling Castle’s chapel have identified more than 160 blunt-force injuries, including a skull fractured in 61 places, suggesting a single high-velocity impact from a trebuchet during Edward I’s siege in 1304 CE — potentially the first documented case of a death caused by a trebuchet.
Topics:worldhuman-history#archaeology#human-history#medieval-history#stirling-castle#trebuchet#warfare
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