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7.20.2009

Dorset Ridgeway’s killing field: were victims Vikings or local heroes?

Decapitated skulls and body parts being unearthed at the top of Ridgeway Hill
Decapitated skulls and body parts being unearthed at the top of Ridgeway Hill

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.


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