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7/19/2009
6:04:13 pm EDT
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Dorset Ridgeway’s Killing Field: Were Victims Vikings Or Local Heroes?
Author: Simon de Bruxelles Source: The Times (UK)
Title: DORSET RIDGEWAY’S KILLING FIELD: WERE VICTIMS VIKINGS OR LOCAL HEROES?
It was a scene familiar from the killing fields of Iraq or the Balkans, but unheard of in rural Dorset. As the earth-moving machine peeled back a thin layer of topsoil, it exposed a tangled mass of human bones.
Fifty-one young men had been decapitated with swords or axes before their bodies were tossed into a pit. The heads were neatly stacked to one side.
Radio-carbon dating suggests that they were killed between 890 and 1034, when the South of England was pillaged by Viking raiders from Scandinavia. A month after the discovery archaeologists are beginning to piece the story together.
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| Since The Grave Is Already Open, | Jul 19th. at 9:11:38 pm EDT
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Becky (Olean, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
I hope that, after the archaeologists learn what they can, they'll have the respect for the dead-- whichever 'side' they're from-- to re-bury the remains. What warrior of either side would want his bones in a glass case in a museum to be stared at as a curiosity, and never shown the respect and honor he earned in life?
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