[hardy-l] Iron Age War Grave found on Wessex Ridgeway Hill

[Rosemarie Morgan]

How fascinating, Rebecca. What a find!. I wonder if DNA testing will also 
reveal whether these were Celt victims or not. It would be somewhat 
gratifying to discover that they were in fact the bodies of Roman invaders 
(hobnailed boots being retained for other business perhaps)  --local 
victories over the invaders being so sadly outnumbered.   Also curious is 
the mass grave -- wasn't it customary for the Roman to take their conquests 
into slavery?

Is there further reading on this you can suggest?

Best
Rosemarie

t 02:14 PM 6/11/2009, you wrote:


>In digging in preparation for the Weymouth relief road for the 2012 
>Olympics archaeologists have found a mass war grave containing 50 headless 
>bodies.  The site is near Maiden Castle. I wonder what Hardy would have 
>had to say?


Rebecca