Turns out, they got hit a lot, and hammered at with swords. Who knew?
The fascinating thing about an archaeological story like this is the physical extrusion, into our time, of a place so many of us romanticize in one way or another. This is a man who lived in the world with John of Gaunt, with the storied Katherine Swynford - and the the story-making Chaucer. This was the time of the Plantagenets, of a boy king, of rebellion and a world changed by plague - the world in which the Church still stood supreme, but was hardly unquestioned. A Distant Mirror. An age of chivalry.
Nasty, brutish, and short.
After all, Robert Morley (our skeleton, in the first link) was 5'7".
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