An Anglo-Saxon man was killed in an 1,400-year-old mystery, experts have revealed.
The skeletal remains of the man, who died in the 7th century, were uncovered in Lincolnshire and show he suffered a grisly end to his life.
He had been on his hands and knees, with head bowed forward, when he suffered a single blow to the back of his neck from a sharp, heavy blade.
The man’s attacker is thought to have used either a sword or a seax, the Old English word for iron single-edged knives.
Analysis of the victim’s bones has revealed that he was aged between 35 and 45,
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