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Site: Crown & Anchor, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Period: Late Saxon or Medieval.
Excavator: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service.
Published: archive report.
Skeleton: female, young.
Catalogue entry: The most spectacular pathology found in this small group was in the form of two unhealed cuts running diagonally across the top of the skull 0168. The skull was disarticulated, but the cuts are unlikely to be post-interment since a spade would not make such clean incisions (although it is not possible to rule this out completely). If the wounds occurred in life they would almost certainly have been the cause of death, but there may have been other wounds in the rest of the body which could have penetrated other vital organs. The main problem with this diagnosis is the difficulty involved in making the second cut once the victim had, presumably, fallen to the floor.