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War Time Mass Grave Found In England

by 158 | July 29, 2009 at 06:37 pm

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This is an interesting find.

It gives some insight into

how people lived and died

in England one thousand

years ago. There was then

almost constant warfare in

in England between Saxons

and Vikings

" Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young men—their heads stacked neatly to the side—have been found in a thousand-year-old pit in southern England, according to carbon-dating results released earlier this month. The mass burial took place at a time when the English were battling Viking invaders, say archaeologists who are now trying to verify the identity of the slain. "

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The_Cynic

at 22:22 on July 29th, 2009

If you, or anyone, has a fascination with history as I have - English (the Isle of Britons), Scottish, Welsh and Irish history is well worth looking at.

Take one simple fact of history 'English Law' - it is still used in most nations today - and the people don't even know it.

Good post, 158.

Paschen

at 01:09 on July 30th, 2009

English Law is still used in most Anglophone Nations today, not the non Anglophones though wish make up the majority of Nations.

We have areas that still use Napoleon's Law out side of France and German Imperial Law from 1870 and this not in Germany but in places like Alsace with is today part of France yet not under the Napoleon Code of Law.

Namibia is another nation with such strange make up.

158

at 08:52 on July 30th, 2009

Thank you..I have ancestors from there and I do like reading history.

England has influenced much of the world.

Paschen

at 01:16 on July 30th, 2009

The Anglo Saxon invaded the British Isles in the Roman era and drove every one else out or almost. The Viking where no better then the Germanic Clan of the Anglo Saxon.

In France it was the Germanic Clan of the Franks that invaded that part of Europe and killed every one that they came across.

Those where the days of the first mass genocide's, maybe even the most brutal and total genocide's in European History.

All Gauls where exterminated by the Franks, it was a total ethnical cleansing. In the South the Vandals and Goth where doing the same thing in today's Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria all the way to Libya.

158

at 08:54 on July 30th, 2009

That is fascinating history.

At that time many european nations and tribes were being disrupted by others, were moving or forced out, and war was everywhere,

Iffy (not verified)

at 03:09 on July 30th, 2009

As bad as that sounds, by far the worst in terms of genocide and mass slaughtering, were the Mongol tribes who ascended across Europe under Ghengis Khan. White Europe had never seen anything like it: whole cities razed to the ground and all killed. Later on, the slaughtering by the Moors also surpassed any conflict within Europe. It wasn't until Hitler that a European killed at such a level.