Show English Chalk Pit Gives Up Victims of Tragedy What Is the grim secret of the little little lIttle lit lIt- tle knoll on Dunstable downs England England Eng- Eng Jand land five Eighty skeletons have up to 10 to the present been excavated from one shallow depression Forty skeletons skeletons skeletons tons were found during research operations operations op op- last year and now excavators excavators excavators excava excava- tors tors have unearthed forty-five forty more skeletons They nr are are believed to be bethe bethe bethe the remains of or young men and women women wom worn en of ot early Saxon times One of ot the skeletons has a wound In the temple and mid others bear signs of ot other wounds while a few have their ther hand hands tied behind Weapons have been found and also a n brooch of ot the First FIrt century E. E C. C The excavators are ore puzzled at finding this ancient brooch among Saxon remains Many theories have peen been advanced abo about t the skeletons of ot the knoll It Is suggested suggested sug sug- that there was a wholesale massacre of prisoners during a Saxon tribal war and that men and women were killed and thrown into a chalk pit |