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An Anglo-Saxon Decapitation and Burial at Stonehenge

Pitts, M.; Bayliss, A.; McKinley, J.; Bylston, A.; Budd, P.; Evans, J.; Chenery, C.; Reynolds, A.; Semple, S.J.

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Authors

M. Pitts

A. Bayliss

J. McKinley

A. Bylston

P. Budd

J. Evans

C. Chenery

A. Reynolds



Abstract

Most of a human skeleton excavated at Stonehenge in 1923, believed destroyed in the London bombing of 1941, was re-located in 1999. New study of the bones shows them to represent a man of Anglo-Saxon era (not Neolithic or Roman as previously suggested) aged 28-32, born in central southern England. He had been beheaded, probably with a sword. The historical context for this incident is discussed.

Citation

Pitts, M., Bayliss, A., McKinley, J., Bylston, A., Budd, P., Evans, J., …Semple, S. (2002). An Anglo-Saxon Decapitation and Burial at Stonehenge. Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine (1982), 95, 131-146

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2002
Deposit Date Aug 5, 2009
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine.
Print ISSN 0262-6608
Publisher Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 95
Pages 131-146
Publisher URL http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/society/

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