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

[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.