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  • THE EXECUTIONER'S MOAT (Interesting Discoveries in the dirt)!

    02/19/2004 1:28:53 PM PST · by vannrox · 50 replies · 1,108+ views
    Archaeological Institute of America ^ | Volume 57 Number 2, March/April 2004 | DAVID KEYS
    The remains of at least 60 criminals executed during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries were found in a medieval moat at Oxford Castle. Excavations in a medieval moat around Oxford Castle have so far yielded the remains of 60 to 70 criminals, mostly men in their twenties, executed during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Archaeologists believe that dozens more await discovery. "This excavation has given us a much greater understanding of the way in which the bodies of executed criminals were treated in postmedieval England," said Andrew Norton, the field archaeologist running the dig. The victims, all of whom are...