May
31
/ 2021
It wouldn’t be unfair to say that the Roman Empire was a vast intercontinental territory. By 117 AD, it included all of Italy, the entire Mediterranean, and much of Europe, including England, Wales and Scotland. At Knobb’s Farm, Somersham, Cambridgeshire, three Roman burial sites have revealed an unusually high number of Roman decapitations, much higher than the average at most British Roman cemeteries. The fascinating study of the Roman decapitations in Somersham were recently published by the Cambridge University Press . Roman Decapitations In The Ancient Graves at Knobb’s Farm The Knobb’s Farm Roman burials dated to the late Roman Empire (the 3rd century AD), were victims of Roman military executions, most probably judicially sanctioned. They lay kneeling with their
