Decapitated skeletons — perhaps criminals or outcasts — have been found in a Roman cemetery uncovered at Fleet Marston, near Aylesbury, during HS2 works.
Archaeologists from COPA have spent a year excavating the roughly 2,000-year-old burial site and adjacent settlement, which lay on Akeman Street, a key Roman road.
The largest of its kind known from Buckinghamshire, the cemetery was found to contain the remains of 425 individuals, around 10 per cent of whom were beheaded.
In several of the