A young woman's body dating back 2,000 years indicates she may have been murdered as a human sacrifice during the Iron Age, archaeologists say. The research team from Bournemouth University has been examining remains found in Dorset during excavations of a pre-historic settlement at Winterborne Kingston.
'We have also previously found ceramic pots and remains of joints of meat next to human remains, which we believe are offerings for the afterlife. This was nothing like that. 'The young woman was found lying face down on top of a strange, deliberately constructed crescent-shaped arrangement of animal bone at the bottom of a pit, so it looks like she was killed as part of an offering.
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