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hastingsmothman
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🎵🎵 D'em bones, d'em bones...🎵🎵

Fascinating visit to the small but interesting St Leonard's Church crypt in Hythe yesterday, one of only two ossuaries in the UK. Stacks and stacks of bones and shelves and shelves of skulls, as well as cabinets showing certain jaws and pelvises and other skeletal parts with interesting injuries, malformations or work related influences.

Fridge magnet was a required purchase.

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Shelves with neatly arranged skulls. Most are facing forward. Some are slightly angled and one on the bottom shelf is facing left to show a hole. A stack of thousands of limb bones, about 6ft high stretching all the way down the side of a crypt from front to back. There is the odd skull with the stack. At the back of the crypt there is a triangular window high up with a grid of iron across it. A close up of a skull wedged within a stack of limb bones. It is centred and faces directly to the camera.