Past Crimes. Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds
PAST CRIMES corpse, where the blood would not be released by such an action?); and individuals with evidence for other perimort ...
Crucifixion was generally reserved for common criminals, and in the same way as the public gibbets of early modern England stood ...
PAST CRIMES scratch on the right radius bone appears to indicate that another nail had been driven into the arm just above the w ...
‘The Romans saw harsh public discipline, at least for the lower orders, as an appropriate form of retribution and an effective d ...
PAST CRIMES were active in the Channel, raiding the coasts of Gallia Belgica and Brittany. The commander of the Roman fleet was ...
Germanus, and some are British including the name Cunovendus. The name ‘Maglus’for this god could translate as‘Great One’or‘Prin ...
PAST CRIMES By the late third century, this form of cloak had become so sought after that it actually received a mention in an E ...
officially. Sometimes this became quite a vast industry. One site in Egypt has produced some 15,000 clay coin moulds for issues ...
PAST CRIMES been worth a day’s pay for an ordinary worker in the Roman period. The coin seems to show a commemoration of the Bat ...
were being made to use in trade with pedlars and merchants bringing goods north from the‘civilised’province into the wild tribal ...
PAST CRIMES has discovered that just before the fire, Christians had been publishing leaflets and messages predicting a devastat ...
marching camp that was being cleared before the soldiers moved onwards in their campaign. There were also fragments of military ...
PAST CRIMES decapitated, their skulls placed between their knees or at their feet. One was wearing heavy iron shackles on the an ...
Arab scholars and scientists, but for the Romans, they were a source of superstitious horror. When the Romans conquered a provin ...
CHAPTER 4 Dark Age Cri mes Difficult times After the fall of the Roman Empire in the west, centralised order broke down. From th ...
stole people to sell as slaves. Paedophiles seduced children and even priests and monks stole from their churches and monasterie ...
PAST CRIMES (tree)’. Moots were usually marked, both in France and in Britain, with some sort of recognisable symbol–a stone pil ...
the guilty were caught and punished, and it was presumed that the identity of a miscreant would not be a mystery for long among ...
PAST CRIMES hundred ploughs) or borough had a court. Catching criminals and bringing them to trial was the responsibility of the ...
depended on the victim’s social status and the severity of the crime. The ‘wergeld’system was complex, and amounts payable for d ...
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