Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet
Mordre is so wlatsom and abhomynable.
Researchers have identified a skeleton they believe could be the first confirmed case of a person being obliterated by a trebuchet. The skeleton, named Skeleton 150, was discovered beneath the chapel of Stirling Castle in Scotland in 1997. The remains of five battle-damaged skeletons were found, all buried beneath the castle chapel rather than outside its walls.
Bioarchaeologist Jo Buckberry from the University of Bradford examined the remains and concluded that the skeletons might have died during the sieges Stirling Castle endured at the close of the 13th century. Skeleton 150 was particularly battle-damaged, with over 160 fractures, including a ruined leg, a massive break through the shoulder, and numerous fractures across the skull.
Buckberry suspects that the individual was killed by a trebuchet, which was a particularly heavy and devastating siege engine used by the English during the siege of Stirling Castle in 1304.
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