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    Rare Iron Age shield provides peek into pre-historic technology

    World | May 27, 2019 13:57 IST

    Radiocarbon dating has revealed that the shield was made between 395 and 255 BC. The shield was severely damaged before being deposited in the ground, with some of the damage likely to have been caused by the pointed tips of spears. Further analysis is planned to help understand if this occurred in battle or as an act of ritual destruction, researchers said.

  • slaughtered bodies from iron age found in britain

    Slaughtered bodies from Iron Age found in Britain

    World | September 05, 2013 21:16 IST

    London: Excavations in a British county have revealed a gruesome glimpse of Iron Age Britain as archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre involving hundreds, if not thousands of people.Some of the slaughtered bodies are

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