So far 45 skulls, believed to be almost 2,000 years old, have been found, and more may be found as the pit is emptied. Archaeologists have called the discovery extraordinary, saying it could be evidence of a disaster, a mass execution, a battle or possibly an epidemic...
The bones recovered so far are still being examined but most appear to be of young men, and are believed to date back to the late iron age or early Roman period...
As well as the skulls, the archaeologists found torso and leg bones buried in separate sections of the pit...
Doesn't sound like a disaster or epidemic to me. Anyone know of other instances of groups of bodies being disarticulated before burial? One unwritten rule of horror movies (which victims seldom follow) is to cut off the head of the bad guy/thing and bury it separately. Maybe something like that was being done here...
