"The Body in the Basement" Chapter 5 of Written in Bone

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Across
  1. 4. "'Burial costs the master __,' said Owsley. A secret basement burial would have spared ... the expense" (62).
  2. 6. "...The boy's bones told a story of a short, __ life...[who] did a man's worth of work" (60).
  3. 8. These settlers planned to make money by growing and selling __, which had become as valuable as gold(54).
  4. 9. "The Leavy Neck boy's bones may reflect the early signs of __" (63)
  5. 11. "An __ servant signed a legal document ..., agreeing to work for a landowner for a term of 4-7 years" (58).
  6. 14. "...Owsley determined they [remains] belonged to a __ who had died when ... 14-16 years old" (60).
  7. 15. "...several English towns had taken root in __" (54).
  8. 17. "The artifacts found among the levels of trash included a __ dated 1664" (56).
  9. 18. What object does Owsley speculate was used to bury the boy? __ __[no spaces] (66-67)
Down
  1. 1. "The grave showed no signs of having been created with __ for the remains it contained" (57).
  2. 2. "...settlers who arrived in the Chesapeake region ... founded a new __, Maryland" (54)
  3. 3. "... the cellar was definitely used as a trash pit at the time the __ was placed . . . " (58)
  4. 5. Whomever dug out the shallow burial place for the remains did so in a rush. The text states, "...who buried the boy's body did so in __ and secrecy" (67)
  5. 7. "...An earthen-walled (dirt) __ was located under the floorboards of the house..." (56).
  6. 8. "...Neale's cellar had also been used for another purpose - as a __ __ [no spaces] (56).
  7. 10. "...the __ __ left by the posts were the only remaining evidence of the structure [Neale's house] (56).
  8. 12. Had the Leavy Neck boy lived in America for a long time before he died? (67) [ye or no]
  9. 13. "The tract of land on which Neale's plantation was located was known as __ __ (55) [no spaces]
  10. 16. "__'s depressions are caused when the spine is compressed by some sort of trauma" (62).