Walkington Wold Burials
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Walkington Wold burials in the East Riding of Yorkshire are the skeletal remains of 13 individuals from the Anglo-Saxon period, discovered in the late 1960s. Subsequent examinations have concluded that they were decapitated Anglo-Saxon criminals, the only such burial discovered in Northumbria.Archaeologists Rod Mackey and John Bartlett discovered the burials while excavating the Bronze Age barrow at Walkington Wold, about 2 km west of the Yorkshire village of Walkington, from 1967 to 1969. The site was known in local folklore as Hell's Gate. Twelve skeletons were unearthed, ten without heads, as well as eleven crania. All were buried randomly, the crania well away from the bodies. Some of the crania were found at the centre of the barrow mound, while the bodies were all located at its skirt. Theories of their identity included victims of a late Roman masacre, Anglo-Saxon executions, or even a Celtic head cult.
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- Titel Walkington Wold Burials
- EAN 9786131431258
- Herausgeber Betascript Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 116
- Editor Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
- Genre Geschichte
- GTIN 09786131431258
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