Some oxygen isotope evidence for Scandinavians in Britain, c. 2300 BC–AD 1050 -- new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/01/oxygen-isotope-scandinavia.html …pic.twitter.com/JklRCchHeZ
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A possible mass-grave of an executed 10th-century Viking raiding party, St John's College, Oxford:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263242415_%27Sprouting_like_cockle_amongst_the_wheat%27_The_St_Brice%27s_Day_Massacre_and_the_isotopic_analysis_of_human_bones_from_St_John%27s_College_Oxford …
"Vikings’ demise on foreign soil–a case of ethnic cleansing?" -- good brief discussion :) http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:538659/FULLTEXT01 …pic.twitter.com/A66zOqsSCC
@caitlinrgreen It happened in Oxford, for example.
Oxygen+strontium isotope results from Weymouth Viking mass-burial vs UK+Weymouth ranges: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/highlights/2010/vikings.html …pic.twitter.com/cOi7yHaX7u
@caitlinrgreen or the 13th of November 1002 ;)
@medievalhistory Always possible! ;)
Decapitated from the front apparently. You'd have to be brave to see that coming and not break down...
Good point, that's horrible! :/
Am part Norwegian. We put out the lights and bolt the doors on November 13
@caitlinrgreen @SteveWold007 like I told my history teacher 30 years ago, it's the Saxons who are the real bad guys....still ignored.
@caitlinrgreen @DorothyKing I suspect he was the banker!
@caitlinrgreen are you running isotopes?! :D *smile of hope*
@caitlinrgreen @Xavgenper So they had a reason to raid... revenge
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