Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have uncovered a Roman-era mercenary buried with his sword and a mysterious beheaded skeleton.
The Vale of Glamorgan council in Wales hired rubicon Heritage Services to assess a road they wanted to be straightened.It led to the discovery of an extensive trove of archaeological artifacts and hundreds of graves dating back thousands of years.In one section of the five-mile road was a collection of Roman artifacts and several skeletons, Mark Collard, the managing director of Rubicon Heritage, who is leading the project, told Insider.
In 2019, in a Roman graveyard in Suffolk, England, archaeologists found the same corpse configuration in 17 decapitated skeletons whose heads had been removed after death, it's believed.It remains a mystery what the practice symbolized. One theory suggests a link to a pagan belief system of pre-Roman Celtic tribes who considered the head was the container for the soul, archaeologists told Live Science.
In the middle of a field lies a once-hidden medieval burial ground, uncovered by Collard and his team, that holds 450 bodies.People returned to the burial ground for roughly 500 years – from the sixth to the thirteenth century – to bury their loved ones there.
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