ANCIENT BRITONS
SKELETONS UNEARTHED. OPPONENTS OF THE ROMANS. NEW FACTS EXPECTED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 19, 11.55 a.m. LONDON, Aug. IS. Thirty skeletons unearthed at a burial ground at Maiden Castle, Dorchester, are expected to reveal new facts about a type of early Britons believed to bo the inhabitants of a hill fortress who died defending their city against the Romans. Many showed sword cuts.
One was buried with a beer mug in his right hand and another was clutching a mutton bone.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 19 August 1937, Page 9
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