| Show English Chalk Pit Gives Up Victims of Tragedy What Is the grim secret of or the little lIttie little lit lIt- tle tie knoll on Dunstable downs England England Eng Eng- land 7 five Eighty skeletons have up to the present been bee excavated from one shallow depression Forty orty skeletons skeletons skeletons tons were found during daring research operations operations op op- last Jast year and now excavators excavators excava excava- tors have unearthed forty-five forty more skeletons They are believed helleved to be bethe bethe bethe the remains of young men and women women women wom wom- en of early Saxon times One of ot the skeletons has a 0 wound In th the temple and others bear benr signs of ot other wounds while a few have their hand tied behind them Weapons have been found 1 and also a brooch of ot the First century B. B C. C The excavators excavators' are puzzled at nt finding this ancient brooch bronchi among Saxon remains Many theories have been n advanced about the skeletons of ot the knoll It Is su suggested suggested sug sug- that there ther was a wholesale massacre of prisoners during a n Saxon tribal war and that men on and 1 women were killed and thrown Into a chalk pit I |
