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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Rachel Hagan

More than 30 people ‘butchered and cannibalised’ in ‘exceptionally violent’ Bronze age massacre

Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised - (Cambridge University Press/Antiquity Publications Ltd)

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 4,000-year-old massacre in Somerset, revealing the brutal slaughter and probable cannibalism of people in what is now believed to the bloodiest known act of violence in British prehistory.

The remains, first discovered by cavers in the 1970s at a site in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, were recently analysed in a study that uncovered shocking details of the attack.

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