Sir Mortimer Wheeler excavated the famous war cemetery at the east gate of Maiden Castle in 1937, revealing some 38 skeletons with ballista bolts embedded in spines and skull sword cuts showing the brutal Roman assault technique: artillery bombardment of the gates followed by infantry assault. This is the most archaeologically documented hillfort assault of the conquest period.
38 confirmed burials in war cemetery; many more unrecovered
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