NHER 41855 (Find Spot record) - Undated human jaw

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Summary

An undated human jaw was found in disturbed ground by a moat near Tibenham airfield. The jaw bone belonged to a juvenile and came from soil removed from a moat somewhere in Suffolk delivered sometime after 1995.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish ASLACTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
Civil Parish BUNWELL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
Civil Parish TIBENHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Around 2002. 'Found where the pigs are by Tibenham airfield' (NHER 23222), therefore not nessarily in Tibenham parish.
Human mandible; young juvenile; teeth missing.
Identified as more than 70 years old.
Information from [1].
E. Rose (NLA) 11 July 2005.

January 2006.
E. Rose (NLA) was told that the findspot was 'in disturbed ground by a moat'.
See [2].
NHER 10937, Channonz Hall, is a moated site in the centre of the airfield.
E. Rose (NLA) 24 January 2006.

It has now been established that the bone came from soil removed from a moat somewhere in Suffolk and delivered here up to ten years before 2005.
E. Rose (NLA) 3 May 2006.

Associated Sources (0)

  • HUMAN REMAINS (Unknown date)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Jul 18 2007 10:51AM

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