An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at Stonehenge

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Title:

Issue:

Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 95

Series:

The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine

Volume:

Page Start/End:

131 - 146

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Publication Type:

Journal

Abstract:

Most of a human skeleton excavated at Stonehenge in 1923, believed destroyed by bombing in 1941, was relocated in 1999. A 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. Includes specialist reports on:

Author:

Michael W Pitts

Alex Bayliss

Jacqueline I McKinley
Anthea Boylston
Paul D Budd
Jane A Evans

Carolyn Chenery
Andrew J Reynolds
Sarah Semple

Year of Publication:

2002

Subjects / Periods:

Sword (Auto Detected Subject)
1923 (Auto Detected Temporal)
	FUNERARY SITE (Monument Type England)
Human Skeleton (Auto Detected Subject)
Roman (Auto Detected Temporal)
Neolithic (Auto Detected Temporal)

Source:

BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Created Date:

19 Sep 2002

Pitts, M. W., Bayliss, A., McKinley, J. I., Boylston, A., Budd, P. D., Evans, J. A., Chenery, C., Reynolds, A. J. and Semple, S. (2002). An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 95. Vol 95, pp. 131-146.

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