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Grisly Discovery Of Headless Bodies Gives Insight Into Justice, Saxon Style

Published Online: January 04, 2008

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Yorkshire Post (UK) | 2007-12-31

Once they were spectacular resting places to honour the dead.
But with pagan Britain's conversion to Christianity, the Bronze Age burial mounds came to be regarded with suspicion as places where devils and dragons lurked. It was at one such site in East Yorkshire that the Anglo-Saxons chose to bury the worst kind of criminals, away from hallowed ground, leaving their heads to rot on stakes.

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