Show english chalk pit gives up victims of tragedy what is tile the grim secret of abe ib lit tie knoll on Duli dunstable stat le dowil docha england el eighty ailt five skeletons have up to the present been acen excavated from one shallow depression lefi forty skeletons were found during research operations erat ions last year and now excava tors have unearthed orty forty ove more skeletons they are bellei belied ed to be the remains of young roe men and women of early saxon times aoe ot of the skeletons has a wound in the temple and others bear signs Is of other wounds while a few have their handi hand tied behind them weapons have been found and also a brooch ot of tile the first century B 0 the excavators excava tors are puzzled at finding tills ancient brooch among saxon remains many theories have been advanced about the skeletons of the knoll it Is suggested 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 |