EARLY BRITONS.
j INTERESTING DISCOVERY. DEFENDERS OF DORCHESTER.
United Press Assn. —E.cc. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 19. 2 pm.' LONDON, August 18. Thirty skeletons which have been unearthed in a burial ground at Maiden Castle, Dorchester, are expected to reveal new facts about the types of early Britons. It is believed they were the 'inhabitants of a hill fortress, and died in defending the city against the Romans. Many showed -sword cuts, and one was buried with a beer mug in the right hand; another was clutching a mutton .
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20276, 19 August 1937, Page 9
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89EARLY BRITONS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20276, 19 August 1937, Page 9
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