Decapitated skeletons could have been 'criminals or type of outcast'
The skeletons were exhumed by HS2 archaeologists, and there were several instances of the head being placed between the legs or next to the feet.
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Archaeologists also found shackles at Blackgrounds, suggesting criminal activity or slavery at some point after its transformation from an Iron Age settlement.