Human bone
- Description
- This human leg bone was found on Westward Ho! beach in Devon. It is very unusual to find human bones in these circumstances, and was probably part of burial washed out during a storm.
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/2003/31T
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- human bone
- Simple Name
- human remains
- Full Name
- femur; homo
- Dimensions
- whole length 320 mm; whole width 45 mm; whole TH 30 mm
- Period Classification
- Late Bronze Age (1200-700 BC); Iron Age (800 BC-43 AD); Bronze Age (2600-700 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- bone (human remains)
- Collection Site Name
- Westward Ho!
- Collection Town
- Westward Ho!
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
