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Salve,

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, 5:16:24 PM, Terrence Lockyer scripsit:

> Didn't the body found somewhere in the UK and fairly recently, to much
> newswire fanfare, claimed to have been that of a Gallus have earrings?  If
> so, it should be possible to surmise whether they were made for pierced ears
> (did the ancients have any other method of attaching earrings, and, if so,
> what?).

None of the news reports I've got on file mention earrings, e.g.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1999734.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/22/ndig22.xml
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_592309.html

dm

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