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  • 4,200-year-old burial of Bronze Age chieftain discovered under UK skate park

    05/05/2020 6:24:53 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 17 replies
    Live Science ^ | May 1, 2020 | Laura Geggel
    Archaeologists found the burials in 2017, ahead of the construction of a skate park in Lechlade-on-Thames, a town in the southwestern county of Gloucestershire, England. Radiocarbon dating revealed that the two men lived in about 2200 B.C. The chieftain's burial held the skulls and hooves from four different cattle, Hood said. Head and hoof burial offerings were practiced in Europe during the Bronze Age, but were less common in Britain. "In fact, all previous examples here [in the U.K.] have been single cattle burials, so the Lechlade burial is unique in this regard," because it had four, Hood said. "It's...