Meanwhile…

Meanwhile, near Stirling Castle…

A Medieval Man's Injuries Reminded One Archaeologist of Modern-Day Car Crash Victims. They Turned Out to Be the Work of an English Trebuchet smithsonianmag.com

A skeleton from Edward I's 1304 siege of Stirling Castle has more than 160 fractures, an injury pattern an archaeologist recognized from modern high-speed car crash victims. The culprit was a trebuchet stone. It is the first time a bone assemblage has been read as the signature of a siege engine hit.

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