Roman Skulls in London

Source: guardian.co.uk.

As in Rome, work on a new railway line in London has produced interesting finds. Workers digging near Liverpool Street Station (along the Walbrook river bed) stumbled upon blackened Roman skulls that, archaeologists conjecture, may have been the result of the bloody uprising of Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, in 61 AD. Other skeletal remains have been found along the river bed, where Boudicca's soldiers would have tossed the decapitated remains of their victims. An article from the UK newspaper, the Guardian, can be found here. Excavations along the Walbrook river bed has already resulted in a number of important finds, including a horde of Roman shoes, some 250 of them. An article from the Guardian in April gives an overview.