Archaeological sites · South East England
Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit
In or near Winterborne St Martin.
Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit — Mass grave in Dorset, England.
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Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit is a archaeological in south east. (Mass grave in Dorset, England.) Wikipedia notes: "The Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth, Dorset, was a mass grave of 54 skeletons, including 51 skulls, of Scandinavian men executed some time between AD 970 and 1025. The men are believed to have been Vikings executed by local Anglo-Saxons.". Coordinates 50.6710°, -2.4660°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.
- Coordinates
- 50.6710, -2.4660
Sources
- wikidata: Q7332823 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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