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Friar crushed by cart: bone analysis hints at causes of medieval deaths… I recently read about this. In 2016 the remains of a body buried in the Augustinian friary in Cambridge was unearthed. The friary, dating from the 13th century, existed until Henry V111’s dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s. The site will eventuallyContinue reading “64. Friars’ bones”