Bad to the bone(s)

[ffutures]

Because I appear to be a masochist, I've just been re-watching the two-part Bones episode set in London.

Where I just noticed a claim that an ossified 2000-year old bone is "firmly in the Bronze age."

And looking up the definition of "ossified," I'm reasonably sure that they meant "fossilized" anyway.

Comments

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Life is too short.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've been playing through the third season, which was on the whole reasonably OK, while cleaning my flat, and forgot that the last disk of that set is the first three S4 episodes including the dreaded London episodes.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Isn't an "ossified bone" a bit redundant?
I haven't seen the episode in question (or much of Bones in the first place) but fossilised would make a lot more sense.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

VERY redundant.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

OTOP, if it was really fossilized bone, it was unlikely to be less than 10,000 years old. It might have been bone on its way to becoming fossilized.

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

Don't hurt yourself man

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Considering that the Celts were famous for their iron-working skills, that seems highly unlikely if they said 2000 years before present. Now, 2000 BC would be another story.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

Wasn't some of that filmed here in Greenwich? I seem to recall people on site getting all unnecessary about Boreanaz being around...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's some stuff set on the river, might have been Greenwich but I wasn't paying full attention.