Medieval History
Twelve skeletons have been found under the car park at a Bicester (Oxfordshire) church.
The bones were found by builders who are midway through constructing the John Paul II Centre in the grounds of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in the Causeway.
Archaeologists have exhumed the remains and believe the skeletons date from late Anglo-Saxon times, between 700 and 950 AD.
Click here to read this article from the Bicester Advertiser
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Medieval History
Twelve skeletons found in Bicester car park
Twelve skeletons have been found under the car park at a Bicester (Oxfordshire) church.
The bones were found by builders who are midway through constructing the John Paul II Centre in the grounds of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in the Causeway.
Archaeologists have exhumed the remains and believe the skeletons date from late Anglo-Saxon times, between 700 and 950 AD.
Click here to read this article from the Bicester Advertiser
- Skeletons Found At Mass Burial Site In Oxford Could Be ?10th-century Viking Raiders?
Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John?s College in Oxford may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford University researchers studying the remains. When the bodies were discovered in the grounds of...
- 'medieval' Skeletons Found In Kempsey Flood Defence Work
Eight skeletons have been found in a Worcestershire village where flood defences are being built. About 12 graves were found in Kempsey by the Environment Agency when they were digging trial trenches as part of an archaeological excavation. The skeletons,...
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Dozens of skeletons unearthed in London may provide the first solid evidence that syphilis did not sail into Europe with Christopher Columbus and his crew, announced researchers working on one of the largest excavations of skeletons ever undertaken in...
- Archaeologists Surprised By Medieval Skeletons Found At Chickerell Site
Medieval skeletons have been uncovered during the first stage of £200,000 building work to revamp a church in Chickerell. Archaeologists were called in when the remains of two children, thought to be from as early as the 13th century, were found close...
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