Roman skulls found during Crossrail dig in London may be Boudicca victims.
By Maev Kennedy
The Guardian, Wednesday 2 October, 2013
During a construction work for crossrail, were found 20 Roman skulls deep on the ground. These skulls tumbling out of a crossrail tunnel surprising to all of the workers in there. Also, even if the archaeologist were expecting findings, because the crossrail is placed in the biggest archaeology site in UK, these skulls are from Romans victims of Boudicca's revolution. The possibly victims of Boudicca's revolution were decapitated and slug into the river, which is why they were found at the banks of the long-vanished river Walbrook, nowadays, a crossrail, on their way to attack Londinium (present London) itself.
As a way to explain this amazing discovering, Jay Carver, archaeologist on the project, says that the Walbrook washed away a Roman cemetery upstream, which is why there were found in clumps. This fact might happened soon after they were buried, so the river could drag the skulls.
The skulls weren't the only discovery in the site, also has been found mammoth bones and Black Death victims to Victorian crockery. The archaeologist are expecting to find new Roman skulls when they work there the next year.
This new discovery has bring to archaeologist an important piece to rebuild the history of London and reveals fascinating aspects of its past. If there were found skulls that they never thought they will find, it is possibly then, that other fascinating remains could be discover and take part of the long, long past of UK.
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