Overview
- Archaeologists at Winterborne Kingston uncovered a young woman laid face down on a constructed platform with her throat cut.
- At least two other skeletons from earlier seasons show comparable injuries and positioning, indicating a repeated practice rather than isolated violence.
- Two individuals have been radiocarbon-dated to roughly 100–50 BC, placing the deaths in the Late Iron Age.
- The bodies appear to have been thrown onto a flat surface made from collected animal bones at the bottom of a pit.
- Researchers will conduct further osteological and isotopic tests at Bournemouth and Dublin universities, plan to return to the site next summer, and the excavation features in a new Hidden Wonders TV series.