DORSET, ENGLAND—Workers carrying out routine drainage and sewage maintenance at an eighteenth-century cottage in Dorset have unearthed three skeletons dating to the early Iron Age, or between 800 and 600 B.C. "There are no previous burials from that time in Dorset so it is a very significant find from a period with little evidence for the disposal of the dead,” National Trust archaeologist Martin Papworth told Culture24. The remains belonged to young adults between 18 and 25 years old and apart from some bone fragments removed for study, they have remained in situ. Papworth suspects that the settlement where the three lived could be buried nearby. To read about another burial from this era discovered in England, go to "Iron Age Warrior Burial."
