The skeletons have wounds from swords, lances; blunt trauma. The archaeologists working on the project think that those killed were probably been part of a military operation, the Danube campaigns, that ended in catastrophe.
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This may have been in 92 AD, during the time of the emperor Domitian, when Suetonius mentions the loss of an entire legion during a battle with the Sarmatians. One of my students (pictured below at the bottom of the earlier picture) has been lucky to be working on the site for several months!
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