Other Burials/Remains

Forum II US 58
Burial: Disarticulated human and animal bone recovered from a stone built tomb. The remains represent a secondary interment that was disturbed after the Forum II cemetery went out of use.
Age: 30 to 34 years (auricular surface).
Sex: Male.
Inventory: Partial skeleton with many postmortem breaks of long bones.
Pathology: Dental: Mandible: The partial mandible exhibits moderate wear and slight to moderate calculus. The right I2 is displaced lingually so that it is lingual to the I1 and canine.
Arthritis: 1 thoracic body exhibits slight lipping of both aspects, with porosity of the superior.

Forum V US 73
Burial: Disturbed disposal in a cistern, lying on water washed matrix.
Age: 35 to 45 years.
Sex: Male.
Inventory: Mandible, left humerus, partial right hip, right femur and tibia, left tibia and fibula.
Pathology: Perimortem Trauma: There is a 30 mm cut running from the anterior superior iliac crest towards the auricular surface. The direction of the sharp force trauma was lateral to medial, with bent bone seen on the iliac fossa edges of the cut, and slightly superior to inferior. The cut was made by a thin sharp blade. There is no healing.
There is a square (3 mm by 3mm) puncture wound at the posterior edge of the superior demi-face of the auricular surface. Bent bone occurs on the medial surface, and breakaway flakes are on the lateral surface. The direction of the blow was from the front and to the left of the individual. There is no healing.
Infection: The distal third, anterior aspect of the right femur exhibits sclerotic new bone that is striated.
The right tibia exhibits striated periosteal new bone on the midshaft, lateral aspect, and lateral to the tibial tuberosity. The proximal two thirds of the posterior aspect is heavily affected by thick striated sclerotic new bone.
The left tibia exhibits localized patches of thickened cortical bone on the lateral aspect at midshaft.
The left fibula exhibits changes similar to the left tibia on the midshaft from the interosseous to posterior and lateral crests, with venous impressions apparent.
Arthritis: The right and left tibiae exhibit slight lipping around the proximal articular surface.
Developmental: The left humerus exhibits extreme robusticity and roughening of the greater tubercle.
The greater trochanter of the right femur is extremely robust and deformed.
The right tibia exhibits a very robust attachment for the soleus muscle.

Forum V US 253 (b)
Burial: Extended on back, hands in pelvis, head SW, and on a tile pillow. Grave structure composed of two house walls on the west and north, and reused architectural fragments on the south and east.
Age: 30 to 45 years.
Sex: Male.
Inventory: Complete except for some hand and foot bones.
Pathology: Dental: Maxilla: Attrition is moderate, and less where opposing teeth have been lost antemortem, There is slight calculus, and alveolar resorption is ubiquitous. The right I2 was fractured antemortem, and the root is extant. There is a large interstitial caries between the left PM2 and left M1. An abscess has extended from this caries and the bone surrounding the tooth roots is resorbed. The infection affected the sinus (see below), and was severe and chronic. Three faint hypoplastic lines are seen on each canine. The left M3 is congenitally absent. Mandible: Attrition is moderate and calculus slight, although more extensive on the anterior teeth. Slight alveolar resorption is ubiquitous. The right I1 is fractured off antemortem, and the root remains in the bone. An interstitial caries between the left PM2 and the left M1 has led to the formation of a periapical abscess, with moderate loss of the alveolar bone. The right PM2 and M1 are lost antemortem. Two moderate hypoplastic lines are seen on each canine.
Infection: The interior aspect of the left maxillary sinus is nearly completely occluded by sclerotic bone. This chronic infective process was an extension of the abscess from the 2nd premolar and first molar on that side.
The left tibia exhibits slight, striated periosteal new bone along the entire medial shaft.
The left and right fibulae show localized areas of thickened periosteum, with bone spicules and venous impressions at midshaft, between the interosseous and anterior crest, and along the lateral crest just superior to midshaft.
The right tibia exhibits very slight, striated periosteal new bone along both the medial and lateral shaft aspects.
Arthritis: The C4 exhibits slight porosity and degeneration of the superior anterior body. There is moderate to sever porosity and lipping between C4 and C5, indicative of disc degeneration. Slight lipping and porosity are seen on the inferior/anterior body aspects of C5 and C6. C7 exhibits slight lipping and porosity on the superior, anterior body. The T4 displays slight porosity of the left inferior articular facet. T8 exhibits large Schmorl's nodes on each body aspect, deeper on the inferior aspect. The right side of the vertebral body is compressed, with moderate lipping apparent on both superior and inferior edges. T9 to T11 continue to exhibit lipping of the right body aspects, but without deformation of the vertebral bodies. All exhibit moderate Schmorl's nodes on both aspects of the bodies. T12 is lipped on the right side of the body, and periarticularly around the superior articular facet. L4 and L5 exhibit moderate to severe osteophytic lipping of both body aspects.
The left mandibular condyle exhibits slight periarticular lipping at the posterior aspect.
The right scapula shows slight periarticular lipping around the posterior glenoid fossa
The left humerus exhibits two localized areas of porosity on the lesser tubercle.
There is slight lipping between the radial head on the left radius and the radial notch on the left ulna.
The right humerus exhibits slight porosity on the lesser tubercle.
The left 1st metatarsal exhibits an area of localized porosity on the proximal articular surface which is indicative of cartilaginous degeneration.
Developmental: The Teres major attachment of the right humerus is a sulcus.
The left hip exhibits a bony exostosis, 6 mm in width, arising from the most superior aspect of the iliac crest, and extending downwards for12 mm (this could be traumatic in origin).