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The Roman skeleton with his tongue cut out


Black Monk

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A Roman man living in Northamptonshire had a gruesome ending, as researchers have discovered that his tongue had been cut out.

The man's skeleton was discovered in 1991, and now an analysis of the remains shows that the muscle had been replaced by a stone.

The reasons for the removal of the tongue remain unclear, but researchers have suggested that he may have been mentally-ill and cut it out himself, or had it removed as a form of punishment...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4151590/Roman-man-tongue-RIPPED-out.html

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14 minutes ago, Black Monk said:

he may have been mentally-ill and cut it out himself, or had it removed as a form of punishment...

So he either cut it out himself... or someone else did. I'm not sure it would have took much research to come to this conclusion. Minutes, maybe even seconds.

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1 minute ago, Stiff said:

So he either cut it out himself... or someone else did. I'm not sure it would have took much research to come to this conclusion. Minutes, maybe even seconds.

Twenty-five years or so by the looks of things.

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54 minutes ago, Stiff said:

So he either cut it out himself... or someone else did. I'm not sure it would have took much research to come to this conclusion. Minutes, maybe even seconds.

There's a third option, perhaps his tiungue wasn't cut out at all. And the stone is in his mouth because he died suddenly, during an elocution lesson. 

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Most likely, he had an opinion the king didn't like.  

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18 minutes ago, oldrover said:

There's a third option, perhaps his tiungue wasn't cut out at all. And the stone is in his mouth because he died suddenly, during an elocution lesson. 

Possibly. Maybe plums were scarce back then :D

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34 minutes ago, Grandpa Greenman said:

Most likely, he had an opinion the king didn't like.  

What king would that be in Roman Britain?

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1 hour ago, Grandpa Greenman said:

Most likely, he had an opinion the king didn't like.  

Or even more likely, he'd opined his opinion on Brexit in public, hence the understandable harshness of his punishment.

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22 hours ago, Stiff said:

Or even more likely, he'd opined his opinion on Brexit in public, hence the understandable harshness of his punishment.

There are lots of Remoaners, as well as Clintonites, out there who deserve such punishment.

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On 1/24/2017 at 10:00 AM, Black Monk said:

What king would that be in Roman Britain?

Roman governor, then, a despot is a despot no matter what you want to call them. 

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