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Sam Russell

REVEALED: Cambridge students on training dig help unearth possible execution pit | Vintage Vibes

Skulls in the possible execution pit discovered at Wandlebury Country Park near Cambridge (Cambridge Archaeological Unit/David Matzliach/PA) -

A group of Cambridge University students on a training dig have helped discover a burial pit containing the remains of at least 10 people, possibly Vikings or Saxons.

The find, at Wandlebury Country Park near Cambridge, may date from around the ninth century AD when the area was a frontier in clashes between Vikings and Saxons over territory.

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