Archaeologists have found the remains of a Roman mercenary buried with his sword and the skeleton of a man who was decapitated in the United Kingdom.
The other burials at the site, which have been used by humans since the Stone Age, are being examined. The people who lived during the early medieval period chose to bury their dead within a mound that had been used as a burial ground during the Bronze Age.
The early medieval people went back to the prehistoric site to make this burial mound, even though it was a Christian period, and you would expect them to be buried around a chapel or a church.
The Iron Age round houses and the Roman Villa were found in the 1960s. Archaeologists realized the site had more history when they conducted an archaeological survey ahead of a road construction project.
Dozens of decapitated skeletons were found at an ancient Roman site in England.
Since the excavation of the site, Rubicon Heritage has been working on a monograph or a detailed, peer-reviewed description of the site. An eBook and an online interactive map of the site were released in March.
The Middle Stone Age is when hunter-gather flint tools were used, and the earliest evidence is at 5 Mile Lane.
It looks like a large post alignment running, according to several large pits or postholes that archaeologists found. He said that the team unearthed the remains of a person in a crouched position, suggesting that the burial was tied to the ritual landscape.
The remains of several round houses and mound burials were found. The Iron Age settled the landscape with small, timber-built and thatched round houses. These farms were close together and had domesticated animals.
It shows how dense the settlement was. He noted that these people were making iron tools. We don't know if it was the same owners or the same family, but we like to think that the continuity was there. He said that they just took on with new fashions and became part of the Roman Empire.
The roughly 450 burials found in the mound used by both the Bronze Age and early medieval peoples will be examined by Collard and his colleagues to see if there was continuity.
The gold treasure was found during the fall of the Roman Empire.
It is likely that this gently sloped area at 5 Mile Lane was well-used because it is rich in farming land around there. It was close to the highway and a busy Roman road.
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The possible mercenary was buried in the middle of a field near a Roman villa. The sword and brooch are indicative of Roman military regalia dating to the late fourth to early fifth centuries A.D.
The man who stood up to 5 feet 9 inches and was in his early 20s died of a middle- ear infection, but it is not certain how he died.
The empire took on mercenaries to fight off invaders in the late Roman period, when this man was alive. It is possible that this man was a Roman mercenary or even an invader who took over the Roman villa, Collard said. A genetic analysis of the man's remains will hopefully shed light on his roots.
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