The excavation revealed 16 individual graves, including a revenant burial—the practice of weighing down a corpse to prevent it from returning—as unexpected finds at a gallows site.
All individual burials showed signs of being unceremoniously dumped into grave holes, often with their hands bound, indicating a stark disregard for the deceased.
The only burial treated with care was a rare coffin inhumation, suggesting this individual may have had significance or respect that others did not.
The presence of sharp force trauma on some bones indicates that torture was likely a precursor to the executions, reflecting the brutal practices of the era.
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