<p>Excavations in a British county have revealed a gruesome glimpse of Iron Age Britain as archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre involving hundreds, if not thousands of people. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Some of the slaughtered bodies are stripped of their flesh or chopped up.<br /><br />Human remains unearthed from an ancient site near Yeovil town, Somerset county, have cut marks, often in multiple rows, and occurring at the ends of important joints, The Independent reported. <br /><br />“It is as if they were trying to separate pieces of the body”, according to Marcus Brittain, the Cambridge archaeologist and head of a major excavation of Britain’s largest Iron-Age hill fort, Ham Hill.<br /><br />Defleshing signs, he said, have been found on other Iron-Age human remains, but the scale of the evidence at this site is particularly dramatic.<br /><br />Ham Hill is the size of 123 football pitches surrounded by Iron-Age ramparts. Only a small part has so far been excavated. <br /><br />"It’s unusual to find this number of bodies on any site, let alone from the Iron Age,” said Brittain.</p>
<p>Excavations in a British county have revealed a gruesome glimpse of Iron Age Britain as archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre involving hundreds, if not thousands of people. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Some of the slaughtered bodies are stripped of their flesh or chopped up.<br /><br />Human remains unearthed from an ancient site near Yeovil town, Somerset county, have cut marks, often in multiple rows, and occurring at the ends of important joints, The Independent reported. <br /><br />“It is as if they were trying to separate pieces of the body”, according to Marcus Brittain, the Cambridge archaeologist and head of a major excavation of Britain’s largest Iron-Age hill fort, Ham Hill.<br /><br />Defleshing signs, he said, have been found on other Iron-Age human remains, but the scale of the evidence at this site is particularly dramatic.<br /><br />Ham Hill is the size of 123 football pitches surrounded by Iron-Age ramparts. Only a small part has so far been excavated. <br /><br />"It’s unusual to find this number of bodies on any site, let alone from the Iron Age,” said Brittain.</p>