An Iron Age skeleton with his hands bound found in Wendover

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I was curious about referring to this find as from the Iron Age:

In the British Isles by convention the Iron Age extends until the Romanisation of Great Britain.

IIRC The British have always been frustrated no really old human remains were found on the island.

They have been trying ever since.

Er, no. There are really old human remains just about everywhere you look - and that's not just on the Parliamentary benches.

Stonehenge f.ex.: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28969-8

That's what I said.

I can't think where that's been R'd from. If anyone cared, 500000 years or so seems quite old.

There’s been a few interesting finds in peat bogs.

"The archaeologists also found an Iron Age funerary monument, which would have been used only by "high status people" This should be the headline i guess. It is more interesting to me.

Changing the title makes it sound as if 2000-year old human remains are somehow rare in the British Isles. I don't think even obviously murdered ones are that exceptional.

Ok, we've changed it again to make it a bit more specific. "murder victim" is way too sensational for a title here.

Indeed, and possibly of less interest than the henge, for instance.

It occurs to me that ancient remains are sometimes initially thought to be contemporary murders, as another angle (or saxon?).

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