Iron Age Wales: Before the Romans
The Ancients
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Are There Any Human Bones That Can Tell Us More About Them?
In the iron age parts of wales nd other parts of southern britain, people are doing weird things with the dead. They don't necessarily bury them as complete skeletons but they start taking bits out and using them in different activities. So at cairo, we actually have the forearm of probably an adult that was found underneath the inner rampart when it was constructed. And you can imagine people placing this important ancestral object, this bone of this ancestor, underneath the rampart as it was being built by the inhabitants of this site. There's some fascinating stories coming out of there.
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