Dorset

A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that the bodies recovered from a ‘war-cemetery’ previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, did not die in a single dramatic event. The research is published as an Open Access paper in the latest volume of the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. A re-analysis of the burials, including a new programme of radiocarbon dating, has revealed that, rather than dying in a single, catastrophic event, individuals fell in periods of lethal violence spanning multiple generations, spread across the late first century BC to the early first century AD. Lethal Weapon: Episodic Periods of Bloodshed This is suggestive of episodic periods of