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Skeletons Found at Mass Burial Site in Oxford Could Be ’10th-Century Viking Raiders’

United Kingdom–(ENEWSPF)–April 12, 2012.  Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John’s College may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford researchers studying the remains.

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When the bodies were discovered in the grounds of the college in 2008 by Thames Valley Archaeological Services, archaeologists speculated that they could have been part of the St Brice’s Day Massacre in Oxford – a well documented event in 1002, in…

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