Monument record WGN 033 - River Lark

Dec 2007: part human skull and leg (?) bone found by Environment Agency dredger driver while dredging River Lark. Forwarded by Environment Agency to Dr Corinne Duhig, Cambridge Wolfson College specialist who identified outer skull indentation as probably healed low-energy (ie, non-firearm) projectile wound, probably from an arrowhead or slingshot Bones are now in Anglia Ruskin osteology collection (details in S2).
Jan 2008: site visit by Suffolk Archaeological Service (WF & CP) followed - dredged material walked over recovering a further human clavicle (from a child of circa 12 years or less), a possible human rib (S1) and various animal bones (but not no Roman pottery - see below).
Feb 2008: dredgings surveyed with a metal detector - the only pre-modern find being a copper-alloy buckle of the 14th century (S1).
April 2008: crown and back of a further human skull recovered from approx same area of dredgings during levelling by dredger driver - collected from Environment Agency 17 April 2008 - now in SCCAS store (S1).
Presumably the human bones are a result of erosion from the river bank as shallow chalk bottomed river which has been repeatedly dredged in past and rapidly silts up. Note: further human skull (& Roman pottery - could this actually be the same site as WGN 008?) recorded from river dredgings further to W (apparently) - see MNL 092. Also ESax cemetery in river valley on N bank of river to W (also downstream!) - see MNL 232.