juamei wrote: I pondered on whether he was left to protect them and got slaughtered along with them. Though until the rest of the ditch is excavated we'll be guessing (and even then).
One teenager to guard them....isn't unlikely if they weren't expecting a massacre...perhaps he was deemed the fastest runner and his job was to get to the other men quickly to raise the alarm.. We could speculate forever without the evidence before us...so I'll stick with the poorly individual theory (for now....)
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Re: Iron age hill fort burials (juamei)