Don't Leap to Conclusions!

It's not often that frogs generate a sense of mystery at an archaeological dig (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/12/mass-frog-burial-baffles-experts-at-iron-age-site-near-cambridge). Excavation of a 14m long ditch adjacent to an Iron Age roundhouse at Bar Hill, near Cambridge provides, however, an exception. The roundhouse was occupied from 400BC to AD43. 8,000 frog and toad bones were found in the nearby ditch. Although Iron Age people were known to eat frogs, the bones had no cut marks or signs of burning. There has been lots of speculation about this unusual finding. Perhaps, the frogs were a fertility offering? Perhaps, they were killed by a fungal disease, extreme cold weather, whilst hibernating in the mud or by falling into the ditch in a mass migration? The short answer is that nobody really knows why these frog skeletons finished up in this location.