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Fractured Tibia
Site: Guisborough Priory, Tees.
Period: Medieval.
Excavator: Cleveland Archaeology (now Tees Archaeology).
Published: Archaeologia Aeliana vol. ?.
Skeleton: male in old age.
Catalogue entry: Skeleton 23 had an oblique fracture of the right tibia, which was well healed with little callus or shortening. The fibula was not affected. There was also a small exostosis on the posterior surface of the shaft of the right femur, possibly caused by tearing of a muscle, perhaps at the same time as the fracture of the tibia occurred.
The photograph shows the left tibia for comparison, to show the minimal shortening and thickening which occurred in the right (on the left side of the picture).