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Perhaps should be filed under Very Cold Cases.
Iron Age murder mystery as CT scan shows British man from
100AD was beaten, strangled, then beheaded in 'pagan ritual' (Daily Mail)
Iron Age murder mystery as CT scan shows British man from
100AD was beaten, strangled, then beheaded in 'pagan ritual' (Daily Mail)
more, with pictures, at link aboveArchaeologists have solved a 1900-year-old 'cold case' mystery - using a medical CT scanner to scan the head of an Iron Age murder victim.
The preserved head of the second century Briton - known as The Worsley Man due to his location near Salford - was found in a peat bog in 1958.
The scan shows he as bludgeoned over the head, garrotted and then beheaded - leading archaeologists to suspect he was sacrificed.
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Brian Stich, the museums curator of archaeology, said: This really was an extraordinary level of violence. It could be that there was some sort of ritual behind this.
'Previous tests have shown the remains of a garrotte in his neck although some had speculated this could have been a necklace. But on the new scans you can see the marks of the ligature.
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