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“Archaeologists knew they had found something special as they uncovered the tangle of human bones, but it was only as the scientific analysis of the skeletons progressed that the full international significance of the discovery became clear. What the archaeologists had found was a mass grave of executed Vikings.

Rare find

Oxford Archaeology Project Manager David Score said: “To find out that the young men executed were Vikings is a thrilling development. Any mass grave is a relatively rare find, but to find one on this scale, from this period of history, is extremely unusual.”

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Oxford Archaeology. Dorset Viking age mass burial publication. Past Horizons. March 04, 2014, from http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2014/dorset-viking-age-mass-burial-publication