Possibly Christians who were executed and then buried?
“Possibly Christians...”
Guess not:
“It’s also worth noting that the deceased had not been executed. The archaeologists believe that the heads had been very carefully removed from the bodies after death, cut cleanly from the front just behind the jaw, unlike the violent, low cuts commonly found in executions.
“Peachey notes that one explanation could be a segment of the population may have belonged to a known Roman cult that venerated the head as part of the soul, and removed the head as part of their religious burial rites.”
Possibly Christians who were executed and then buried?
I thought about that too.