Thursday, 8 February 2018
Mass grave of Viking army contained slaughtered children to help dead reach afterlife, experts believe
The grave of the four youngsters who may have been killed in a burial ritual
A mass grave of Viking warriors found in Derbyshire was accompanied by slaughtered children in a burial ritual enacted to help the dead reach the afterlife, archaeologists believe.
Experts from the University of Bristol have reexamined a huge pit of bones uncovered in the 1970s and 80s in Repton.
http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/2018/02/mass-grave-of-viking-army-contained.html
