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An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at Stonehenge.

Michael Pitts · Alexandra Bayliss · Jacqueline I. McKinley · A. Bylston · Paul Budd · Carolyn A. Chenery +2 more

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Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies Historical and Archaeological Studies

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Most of a human skeleton excavated at Stonehenge in 1923, believed destroyed in the London bombing of 1941, was re-located in 1999. New study of the bones shows them to represent a man of Anglo-Saxon era (not Neolithic or Roman as previously suggested) aged 28-32, born in central southern England. He had been beheaded, probably with a sword. The historical context for this incident is discussed.

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