University of Cambridge

Cambridge students help unearth possible Viking-era ‘execution pit’ on training dig

A pit containing both complete and dismembered bodies may date to when Cambridgeshire was a borderland between Saxon and ...

Trepanned skull of Viking-era man found in mass grave

Viking-era man who had undergone trepanation has been found in a mass grave. A hole had been bored in his skull while he was alive. It had signs of healing before his remains were flung into a burial ...

Haunting Viking-era ‘execution pit’ stuffed with bodies found in UK including ‘extreme’ GIANT with ‘perforated skull’

A HAUNTING Viking-era mass grave stuffed with dismembered bodies has been uncovered in the UK – and may have been an ...