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tiompan wrote:

An addition to the above .
Woodhenge : on the child's grave within the timber setting at Woodhenge , Cunnington commented “ the skull appears to have been cleft before burial “


Hi George, found this while looking for more info on the burial -

Excavations led by Josh Pollard (University of Southampton) show that, after the timber posts had rotted, a stone cove was constructed on the south side of the dig. The site was also subject to structured deposition of artefacts and animal remains. One inhumation grave, that of a child of around 3 years of age, was found near the centre of the site. This is now marked by a pile of flints. The EH website attributes the death to a human sacrifice but it is now postulated that the evidence that the skull was sliced might be a misinterpretation of the fragmentation of the skull due to the pressure of the soil. It is now thought to date to the Early Bronze Age, at or near the end of the site’s use.

https://howardwilliamsblog.wor[...]0/woodhenge-for-the-ancestors/


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Evergreen Dazed
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14th February 2017ce
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