A shote while ago I shared a link to the analysis and apparent identification of an English soldier from the 1340s Anglo-Scottish conflict, whose skeleton had been found in the remains of the medieval chapel of Stirling Castle. That article can be accessed at Reconstruction of a medieval male skeleton from Stirling Castle.
Now there is news on Live Science of another study of a skeleton from the same chapel but from the time of King Edward I’s siege of the castle at Stirling in 1304 during the earlier war. In this case the skeleton was that of, presumably, a Scottish soldier who had died in his twenties from traumatic injuries. The theory advanced is that he was struck from behind by a stone lobbed by one of the English trebuchets and that his, mercifully, instantaneous death resembled a modern car accident.
The article about the study can be seen at Skeleton with 167 fractures discovered at Scottish castle may have been first victim of Edward I's 'War Wolf' trebuchet
Historic Environment Scotland has a good account of the siege engines and the actual siege of Stirling at The War Wolf at Stirling Castle
A trebuchet in action from the Maciejowski Bible of circa 1240
Pierpont Morgan Library
Image: World History Encyclopaedia
Wikipedia has a quite detailed account of these mighty siege engines at Trebuchet
Medievalists.net has another, short, article at The Engineering Beauty of the Trebuchet
A modern reconstruction of the Stirling ‘War Wolf’
Image: Wikimedia
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