Buckinghamshire Council said the latest report confirmed that at least 73 individual bodies have been found across 34 graves.<\/p>\n
No clear order or layout has been discovered with most burials laid in a traditional east-west position.<\/p>\n
Twenty-six skeletons were found with their hands tied behind their backs. <\/p>\n
The burials were predominantly of adult males, with some juveniles and adolescents, but no females were identified.<\/p>\n
Further analysis revealed signs of childhood stress, healed fractures, and diseases such as tuberculosis. <\/p>\n
Only a small number of artefacts were found at the site, suggesting valuables were removed before burial. <\/p>\n
Two buckles were recovered, one dating to the late Roman period and one dating to the post-medieval period.<\/p>\n
Carbon dating of one skeleton provided a date in the late 13th Century, according to Buckinghamshire Council’s archaeology team.<\/p>\n
It said that the unusual layout, lack of grave goods, and evidence of bound hands strongly suggested the site was an execution cemetery – a rare type of burial ground historically used for criminals.<\/p>\n
These sites, often located on parish boundaries, represent a marginalised sector of medieval society.<\/p>\n
Post-excavation analysis will now be undertaken and the results published to ensure a proper record of the discovery is made.<\/p>\n
Further research will continue to enhance understanding of the site, the individuals buried there, and life in Buckinghamshire during the Saxon and medieval periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buckinghamshire Council said the latest report confirmed that at least 73 individual bodies have been found across 34…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}