Table 4. Descriptive summaries of all SJM adults, including age and sex, pathology and skeletal preservation.

Burial number	Age	Sex	ID known? (yes, suspected, unknown)	Death certificate?	Material present	Skeletal pathology	comments
4	41 years	Male	yes	Yes. Cause of death alcoholism and chloroform abuse.	Poorly preserved bones most surface unobservable. Some teeth	Unobservable	Positively identified in situ. Local doctor.
6	36 years	Female	yes	Yes. Cause of death complications of childbirth	Good preservation of complete skeleton. Some damage to cranium.	Well-developed entheses of upper limb. Maxillary sinusitis	Positively identified in situ. Wife of local doctor.
7	Old	Male?	No	–	Complete very poorly preserved post cranial skeleton. Edentulous maxilla fragment.	Unobservable in postcranial bones. Moderate hyperostosis frontalis interna on left.	Very elaborate coffin plates covering most of the body. Only the cranium and a long bone fragment were sampled the rest remained unexcavated due to poor preservation
9	47 years	Male	Yes	Yes. Cause of death tuberculosis. ‘Pthisis pulmondes’	No skeletal or dental remains preserved	–	Positively identified in situ. Drill instructor.
10	Old	Female	No	–	Very good preservation of limbs and cranial material. Thorax damaged by large coffin plate.	Thin diaphyseal cortices and generally light bone. Retention of metopic suture.
11	Mid	Male	Suspected	Possible. Cause of death injuries due to mining accident	Excellent preservation of skeletal and dental. Hair preserved.	Multiple perimortem and antemortem trauma.	Possible identification from multiple sources. Miner.
12	Adulta	Male	Yes		Not excavated	–	Grave and identity confirmed from discovery of semi buried headstone. Not excavated.
13	Mid?	Male	No	–	Good preservation in situ. Cranium damaged. Did not survive well after drying.	Multiple antemortem fractures and enthesopathies. Generally very robust and marked entheses. Most bone surfaces eroded.
21	42 years	Male	Yes	Yes. Cause of death Tuberculosis. ‘Pneumonic pthisis haemorrhage’	Very well preserved skeletal and dental material though fragmented and disarticulated. Hair and brain tissue preserved.	Skeletal tuberculosis lesions of hips and cranium (Snoddy et al. 2020).	Positively identified in situ. Labourer. Invalid for 12 months before death.
22	Adult	Female?	No		Very poorly preserved skeletal material. Dentition present.	Unobservable	Not fully exhumed due to poor preservation. Bone samples taken.
23	Adult	Female?	No		Very poorly preserved skeletal and dental. Hair and complete calcified brain present.	Unobservable	Not fully exhumed due to poor preservation. Cranium and dentition lifted.
29	Mid	Female	No		Well preserved skeletal and dental. Damage to facial bones.	Some form of skeletal dysplasia (bowing of limbs and deformity of ribs). Possible perimortem sharp force injury to sternum.

^aOnly the name of this individual was visible on the headstone. His age was not visible and no further information about his life was present in the historic record.