Mass grave from St Brice's Day Massacre?
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:19 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14476039
Bad day to be a dane on saxon land. No mention of artifacts or other finds with the bodies. Stripped and dumped? Interesting that the grave was at a neolithic monument. Would the danes have been pagans still at this time, or was this christian on christian ethnic cleansing, with a final insult of burying the dead at a pagan henge? I'm guessing the latter as there are accounts of victims fleeing to a church
Plenty of backstory potential for any n00b generi-viking personas in need of help...
from the article:
At least 35 skeletons, all males aged 16 to 25 were discovered in 2008 at St John's College, Oxford.
Analysis of wound marks on the bones now suggests they had been subjected to violence.
...The bodies had not received any type of formal burial and they had been dumped in a mass grave...
...found a host of gruesome injuries on each of the individuals...
In AD1002, the Saxon king Ethelred the Unready recorded in a charter that he ordered "a most just extermination" of all the Danes in England.
Bad day to be a dane on saxon land. No mention of artifacts or other finds with the bodies. Stripped and dumped? Interesting that the grave was at a neolithic monument. Would the danes have been pagans still at this time, or was this christian on christian ethnic cleansing, with a final insult of burying the dead at a pagan henge? I'm guessing the latter as there are accounts of victims fleeing to a church
Plenty of backstory potential for any n00b generi-viking personas in need of help...
from the article:
At least 35 skeletons, all males aged 16 to 25 were discovered in 2008 at St John's College, Oxford.
Analysis of wound marks on the bones now suggests they had been subjected to violence.
...The bodies had not received any type of formal burial and they had been dumped in a mass grave...
...found a host of gruesome injuries on each of the individuals...
In AD1002, the Saxon king Ethelred the Unready recorded in a charter that he ordered "a most just extermination" of all the Danes in England.