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Table 1. Total numbers of skeletons examined 



Roman 



Anglo-Saxon 



Medieval 



Hickleton 60 



Barton Bendish 80 



Exeter 226 



Rand Church 12 



Nuns Field, Chester 18 



Greyfriars Court, Chester 40 



Thornhill 6 



Rhuddlan 47 



Norton Priory 149 



Austin Friars, Leicester 25 



Elstow Abbey 20 



Newark 80 



St. Oswalds Priory, Gloucester 50 



St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh 108 



York Minster 269 



West Mailing 236 



Stratford Langthorne Abbey 121 



Cruden Bay 36 



Linlithgow 191 



Kirk Hill 296 



Stonar, Sandwich 149 



Holy Trinity Priory, London 9 



Billingsgate 56 



Aberdeen 121 



St. Helen on the Walls 400 



Numbers of fractures identified to date are in Table 2. 

 These numbers will be supplemented with examples from a 

 further five cemeteries by the completion of the research. Sex 

 and age of the individuals will not be discussed since they are 

 irrelevant at this stage. 



Several problems with the skeletal material were encoun- 

 tered. Some institutions did not know what collections they 

 had, and occasionally could give only the numbers of skel- 

 etons under their care and not the cemetery names. In many 

 cases the bones were not clean and were therefore unsuitable 

 for examination. Some collections had been divided up and 

 stored in several places, and some pathological bones had 

 been separated from the rest of the body. These problems 

 prevented more efficient use of time when visiting the institu- 

 tions concerned. 



Table 2. Number of fractures identified 



Zagreb Paleopathology Symp 1988 



