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Headless Vikings of Dorset (970-1025 CE), United Kingdom.
Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit was a mass grave of 54 skeletons, including 51 skulls, of Scandinavian men executed some time between 970-1025 CE. Men are believed to have been Vikings executed by local Anglo-Saxons.
Bodies had been thrown into the pit haphazardly but severed heads had been piled up separately to one side. Pit was in a disused Roman quarry, used by killers for convenience rather than specially dug for purpose. It lay next to what was a main road and parish boundary in Anglo-Saxon times; such prominent locations were typically used for public executions.
They had all been killed at the same time with a large, very sharp weapon such as a sword. They had not been cleanly killed, as many of them had suffered multiple blows to vertebrae, jawbones and skulls. One man had his hands sliced through, suggesting that he had attempted to grab sword as it was being swung towards him.
Judging from lack of any remains of clothing or other possessions, they had probably been naked when they were thrown into the pit. There are more bodies than skulls, suggesting that three of the heads, perhaps of high-ranking individuals were kept as souvenirs or put on stakes.
Their physical features were also very similar to Scandinavian populations of the time and physique of some of them indicated that they were possibly warriors. One man had filed grooves into his front central upper incisors, a possible indication of warrior status that has been observed in Scandinavian burials. However, men were not all in good physical condition. One had suffered from a painful and disabling suppurating leg wound since childhood, which would have significantly slowed him and his group. Another had a deformed right leg as a result of a fractured femur.
It has also been suggested that executions may have been linked to St. Brice's Day massacre, a frenzied mass killing, or that Viking men were executed by their own kind for defection. Crudeness of execution and large number of victims indicate it was not carried out by trained executioners.
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