"You've got Danish and Saxon armies fighting backwards and forwards across England,"
The early English also faced the threat of longship-sailing Vikings, Scandinavian seafarers who pillaged coastal regions.
The team hopes chemical analysis of the buried men's teeth will show whether they grew up in Britain or Scandinavia. (Related: "Vikings Filed Their Teeth, Skeleton Study Shows.")

Signs of muscle attachment on the bones could also help reveal whether the executed were Viking oarsmen, since "strong physical exertion in a particular direction does affect the bones,"

Finds like this are so exciting.

That's what you get when you come ashore to rape pillage and kill.