Show English Chalk Pit Gives Given Up Victims Victim of Tragedy What Is the th grim secret of the little lit tie tle knoll on en I 1 Dunstable downs down Eng land e skeletons skeleton have hue up to the present been excavated d from front frontone one shallow depression tort Porty kele- kele skeletons tons were wre found during research operations op I last year jear and no now excava excavator tore tor have unearthed une forty five morn more skeletons They yarE The are believed to hethe bethe he be hethe the ren remains of young men n and women women wom worn en of early Saxon time times One Oae of ot the skeletons has a wound In to the temple and others o bear war signs of other wounds while a II few III hate ha e their hand hande tied behind them Weapons have been en found and also a n brooch of the First century 11 n. C. C The excavators are puzzled at finding this ancient brooch among Saxon axon rem remains Many theories have been advanced about the skeletons skeleton of the knoll It Is II suggested nug sug- that there was 01 a wholesale massacre of prisoners during n a Saxon tribal war and that men mn and women were wre killed and ocl thrown Into a ft a chalk put pit lt |