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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man who had brain surgery

A group of students on a training dig have unearthed a Viking-era mass grave on the outskirts of Cambridge containing the dismembered remains of an “extremely tall” man who had seemingly undergone brain surgery.

The remains found by the Cambridge University students are suspected to be of people executed during, or following a battle, around the 9th century AD.

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