 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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A CUT ABOVE THE REST; THE HISTORY OF EUNUCHS IS PAINFUL-BUT OFTEN GLORIOUS.
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
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May 23, 2002| Author:
De Courcy, Anne
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Byline: ANNE DE COURCY
AT FIRST he was mistaken for a woman - an illusion that persists to this day with his kind - as his skeleton was so slight, and so heavily adorned with expensive female jewellery.
He might, thought the archaeologists who found this Roman grave in the North Yorkshire town of Catterick, be the first known example of a British transvestite.
But further investigation revealed something much stranger. The young man who died 1,700 ...
