Skeletons Found In Commandery

Article from page 12 of Dickon Independent issue 53

Two skeletons have been found during excavation work at the Commandery in Worcester, but only one has so far been analysed.

The man was over fifty when he died, probably in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. He was tall, with bad breath, toothache, sinusitis and back ache!

There are no grave goods to help identify him. As his body only lay roughly east to west he is unlikely to have been an important member of Worcester society.

Pam Benstead

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