Third example of a child’s milk tooth confirmed from Trench T deposit

The milk tooth from the Trench T midden deposit. (📷 Katie Joss)

Post-excavation work continues and has produced our third example of a child’s milk tooth.

This example came from the massive Trench T midden mound – from a well-sealed Neolithic deposit of mixed bone and pottery. It is a lower pre-molar and was lost naturally.

Like the previous two, because it came from midden material that may have come from elsewhere, we cannot say with certainty that children were present or involved in activities at the Ness.

The first example came from one of the orthostatic boxes in Structure Thirty-Four in 2024, the second from midden used to infill Structure Seventeen before the construction of Structure Eight (c.3100BC).