Liffrea
09-18-2009, 03:37 PM
It looks like the aftermath of a massacre - the decapitated, naked bodies of at least 51 young men found thrown into an old quarry and their heads piled on top.
The mass grave uncovered by archaeologists at Ridgeway Hill, near Weymouth in rural Dorset, is a rare discovery.
The men had all been executed, their heads hacked off with swords - but who were they?
In early June, the team from Oxford Archaeology had finished excavating the area where a £87m relief road, from Dorchester to Weymouth, is being built.
But as the diggers went in to level the banks to the side of the new road, which runs along an ancient Roman way, skulls and bones started appearing.
In total, 51 skulls have been found along with the bodies they once were attached to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8250295.stm
The mass grave uncovered by archaeologists at Ridgeway Hill, near Weymouth in rural Dorset, is a rare discovery.
The men had all been executed, their heads hacked off with swords - but who were they?
In early June, the team from Oxford Archaeology had finished excavating the area where a £87m relief road, from Dorchester to Weymouth, is being built.
But as the diggers went in to level the banks to the side of the new road, which runs along an ancient Roman way, skulls and bones started appearing.
In total, 51 skulls have been found along with the bodies they once were attached to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8250295.stm