Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit
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title:
Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit
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The Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth, Dorset, was a mass grave of 54 skeletons, including 51 skulls, of Scandinavian men executed some time between AD 970 and 1025. The men are believed to have been Vikings executed by local Anglo-Saxons. The dismembered skeletons were discovered by archaeologists in June 2009, and their identity and approximate ages were later confirmed by forensic analyses. Although the immediate circumstances of the deaths is unknown, the event
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Mass grave in Dorset, England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgeway_Hill_Viking_burial_pit
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2023-07-16T17:16:41Z
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