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to the limbs as you see, as if it had been dried in sand," just as tradition said. "Also," he said, "there is a hole in the breast here which has partly filled up, evidence probably of a tumour or abscess which was healing," again just what the chronicler stated. One of the skulls showed a cut right through the bone, like the cut of axe or sword, again corroborating the story of the death of St. Oswald in battle. The whole account seemed to me to be most interesting, and certainly it would be difficult to obtain more conclusive proof of the veracity in every detail of the old chronicler.