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An Iron Age skeleton with his hands bound found in Wendover
- mytailorisrich 6y agoI was curious about referring to this find as from the Iron Age: In the British Isles by convention the Iron Age extends until the Romanisation of Great Britain.
- the-dude 6y agoIIRC The British have always been frustrated no really old human remains were found on the island. They have been trying ever since.
- neffy 6y agoEr, no. There are really old human remains just about everywhere you look - and that's not just on the Parliamentary benches. Stonehenge f.ex.: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28969-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28969-8
- the-dude 6y agoThat's what I said.
- gnufx 6y agoI can't think where that's been R'd from. If anyone cared, 500000 years or so seems quite old.
- tobylane 6y agoThere’s been a few interesting finds in peat bogs.
- gnufx 6y agoChanging the title makes it sound as if 2000-year old human remains are somehow rare in the British Isles. I don't think even obviously murdered ones are that exceptional.
- dang 6y agoOk, we've changed it again to make it a bit more specific. "murder victim" is way too sensational for a title here.
- gnufx 6y agoIndeed, and possibly of less interest than the henge, for instance. It occurs to me that ancient remains are sometimes initially thought to be contemporary murders, as another angle (or saxon?).
- pikseladam 6y ago"The archaeologists also found an Iron Age funerary monument, which would have been used only by "high status people" This should be the headline i guess. It is more interesting to me.