Top Stories· August 17, 2026 at 01:41 p.m.
First-known Trebuchet Casualty Discovered in Scottish Castle
Key takeaways
- Skeleton 150 is the first-known trebuchet casualty
- The man's skeleton was found beneath Stirling Castle in 1997
- The trebuchet likely launched a projectile at around 200-300 kilometers per hour
During a medieval siege at Stirling Castle in Scotland, a man known as Skeleton 150 was killed by a trebuchet, making him the only known casualty of this type of weapon in history. University of Bradford paleopathologist Jo Buckberry presented her research on the case at the 25th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association last week.
