Was This Medieval Man Crushed To Death By A Megalith?

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  @ZarbanDerek · 1 year ago

  "Was this an accident, murder, or a tragic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?" You mean like an accident? You're describing an accident.

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• HE

  @hectorpascal · 1 year ago (edited)

  If the Avebury man was a stranger but purposely buried by others, how come nobody stole his coins or his very valuable scissors?

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  @philipr1567 · 1 year ago

  The &apos;barber surgeon&apos; - my hypothesis:<br>Tom Tailor travelled from village fair to village fair selling his wares, making repairs and touting for business. &nbsp;On one occasion he was caught by Sir Ranulf de Avebury taking liberties with his daughter. &nbsp;Sir Ranulf mounted his horse and chased Tom, striking him twice on the head with his sword and leaving him for dead. &nbsp;Tom survived and left town but a few years later (after his skull damage had healed) he made the mistake of returning to Avebury. &nbsp;Tom was caught by Sir Ranulf&apos;s men who dragged him to the stone circle, cut his throat and dumped his body in the hole beside the toppled stone. &nbsp;At some time after the hole was filled in, the stone slipped a few inches causing the pelvic fracture.

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  @abcdefghijklmn-i5e · 1 year ago (edited)

  &quot;Colonel Plum in the Avery standing stone circle, with the megalith because of a bad haircut.&quot;

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• AM

  @amierikke6225 · 1 year ago

  Is it just me, or does Mike look as if he’d fit in just fine in an 1970’s British rock and roll band?

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• NI

  @nicoleroth3127 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;d contest the conclusion, that the second man was a farmer/peasant. If he was too slight and lacking the muscle to be a professional soldier, he also would&apos;ve been too slight and lacking in muscle to do the gruelling work in the fields. Even ploughing as with horses, as would&apos;ve been done at the time, requires considerable physical strength and fitness. It&apos;s more likely he would&apos;ve worked in a craft that didn&apos;t require much physical strenght like a weaver, taylor, potter etc. Alternatively, he could&apos;ve been a merchant who was robbed. I&apos;d be interested to know, whether there are reports of pillagings connected to the siege, which could explain why he was seemingly cut down by swords. He also could&apos;ve been a travelling craftsman/merchant who wasn&apos;t local to the area, and having been killed nearby, might have ended up in the hospital&apos;s cemetary as an act of kindness, other than the &apos;Avebury Barber Surgeon&apos;.

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  @Andbygrace7024 · 1 year ago

  Maybe all of the stones have a body beneath them.

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• KI

  @kieranorourke1 · 1 year ago

  Not a hip fracture but a pelvic fracture and not a typical traumatic fracture

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• MI

  @mikepotter5718 · 1 year ago

  I remember a story from WW1, The victim had a large part of his head blown off and lived &nbsp;thru the night. It&apos;s hard to know how long anyone survives fatal wounds.

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  @alfoutdoors9660 · 1 year ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em4EWEfq04w&amp;t=636">10:36</a>...Amazing they heard the bell to let him in when he wasn&apos;t even pressing the button!

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  @noBodieschild-e7f · 1 year ago

  It is also possible, after the battle, when women and families searched for their loved ones, he could well have been carried home and given a dignified burial in the churchyard.

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  @socialisttrafficregulator2015 · 10 months ago

  His name was Tom.<br>He was a troublemaker who regularly sought a good laugh with his friend John.<br>One Friday night, Tom and John thought it would be a fine prank if they toppled one of the villages&apos; megaliths after a night of far too much drinking of mead.<br>While attempting to rock (lol) the target megalith, his shoe became caught in the den of a ferret; just as the megalith began its&apos; final tilt. Once Tom became pinned beneath the target of their prank; John became frightened and ran back to his home.

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