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Re: why buried?
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>The Barber surgeon story has been re-written after Mike Pitts rediscovered the >skeleton in London. He only had a small crack on his left hip indicating that he was >rolled into the pit After the stone was toppled. If he was buried underneath a stone >his bones would have been smashed.

Do you have a link for the story at all Pete if it's on the web?... I'd be interested in reading about it. I saw a pic in a book (Stonehenge Complete????) of a skull under a stone, and yes, it looked remarkably unsmashed for someone with 'X' tons of rock dropped on them!


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Kozmik_Ken
Posted by Kozmik_Ken
4th December 2003ce
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