BRUTALISED, BOUND AND BLED: A CASE OF LATER IRON AGE HUMAN SACRIFICE FROM WINTERBORNE KINGSTON, DORSET
Authors: Russell, M., Smith, M., Hambleton, E., Cheetham, P. and Tamminen, H.
Journal: Antiquaries Journal
eISSN: 1758-5309
ISSN: 0003-5815
DOI: 10.1017/S0003581524000143
Abstract:Although the practice of human sacrifice in the British Iron Age is mentioned by multiple authors, both ancient and modern, physical proof of such activity in the archaeological record is comparatively rare. At Winterborne Kingston, in Dorset, the skeletal remains of a young adult female found face down near the base of a cylindrical storage pit provides clear evidence of violent death in the later Iron Age. Analysis of the skeleton suggests an individual who led a hard-working life and who, having suffered an act of violence a few weeks before death, was killed, possibly with her hands tied, by a blade incision to the neck. Placement of the body further suggests that killing was enacted within the pit, execution as spectacle forming the final act in a larger ceremony involving the creation of an animal bone stack or platform.
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BRUTALISED, BOUND AND BLED: A CASE OF LATER IRON AGE HUMAN SACRIFICE FROM WINTERBORNE KINGSTON, DORSET
Authors: Russell, M., Smith, M., Hambleton, E., Cheetham, P. and Tamminen, H.
Journal: ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL
eISSN: 1758-5309
ISSN: 0003-5815
DOI: 10.1017/S0003581524000143
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/39848/
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Brutalised, Bound and Bled: A Case of Later Iron Age Human Sacrifice from Winterborne Kingston, Dorset
Authors: Russell, M., Smith, M., Hambleton, E., Cheetham, P. and Tamminen, H.
Journal: Antiquaries Journal
Volume: 104
Pages: 1-27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0003-5815
DOI: 10.1017/S0003581524000143
Abstract:Although the practice of human sacrifice in the British Iron Age is mentioned by multiple authors, both ancient and modern, physical proof of such activity in the archaeological record is comparatively rare. At Winterborne Kingston, in Dorset, the skeletal remains of a young adult female found face down near the base of a cylindrical storage pit provides clear evidence of violent death in the later Iron Age. Analysis of the skeleton suggests an individual who led a hard-working life and who, having suffered an act of violence a few weeks before death, was killed, possibly with her hands tied, by a blade incision to the neck. Placement of the body further suggests that killing was enacted within the pit, execution as spectacle forming the final act in a larger ceremony involving the creation of an animal bone stack or platform.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/39848/
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Brutalised, Bound and Bled: A Case of Later Iron Age Human Sacrifice from Winterborne Kingston, Dorset
Authors: Russell, M., Smith, M., Hambleton, E., Cheetham, P. and Tamminen, H.
Journal: Antiquaries Journal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0003-5815
Abstract:Although the practice of human sacrifice in the British Iron Age is mentioned by multiple authors, both ancient and modern, physical proof of such activity in the archaeological record is comparatively rare. At Winterborne Kingston, in Dorset, the skeletal remains of a young adult female found face down near the base of a cylindrical storage pit provides clear evidence of violent death in the later Iron Age. Analysis of the skeleton suggests an individual who led a hard-working life and who, having suffered an act of violence a few weeks before death, was killed, possibly with her hands tied, by a blade incision to the neck. Placement of the body further suggests that killing was enacted within the pit, execution as spectacle forming the final act in a larger ceremony involving the creation of an animal bone stack or platform.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/39848/
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