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9.21.2009

Decapitated bodies - were they Vikings?

The burial pit (Copyright: Oxford Archaeology)
Archaeologists found more bodies than skulls in the pit

By Eleanor Williams
BBC News, Dorset

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.

Read the rest on the BBC.