Excavations from an Iron Age fort inwards modern-day Sweden revealed brutalized human remains together with other macabre traces of a massacre that stopped a pocket-size Scandinavian community inwards its tracks to a greater extent than or less 1,500 years ago.
Six years later the archaeological investigations began, the squad has published a study of their findings inwards the magazine Antiquity. Although exclusively half dozen pct of the site has been unearthed together with analyzed, the bear witness gathered thence far paints an unprecedently brilliant moving painting of life – together with expiry – inwards belatedly 5th-century Europe, a turbulent current next the autumn of the Western Roman Empire.
Located on the isle of Öland off the coast of southeast Sweden, the Sandby Borg ringfort resembled a large oval-shaped mound of grass together with dirt encircled past times crumbling rock earlier the archaeologists arrived. Hoping to save the contents of the site from lately spotted treasure hunters, the squad slow precisely sure as shooting revealed that the unassuming ruins belonged to a 5,000-square-meter (54,000-square-foot) village, containing 53 dwellings, enclosed past times rock walls that 1 time stood 4-5 meters (13-16 feet) high.
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