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xoxoxoBruce 06-09-2010 11:42 PM
June 10, 2010: Gladiator Graveyard
 
Archaeologists have discovered a graveyard they believe is the burial spot for slain Gladiators.
Not in Italy, or Sicily, or Greece, but England.

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Archaeologists believe they have found the world's best-preserved gladiator cemetery in York, England.
The 2,000-year-old skeletons appear to have suffered violent injuries usually sustained in a Roman amphitheater.
Most of the skeletons were violently decapitated and appeared to have been buried with some respect.
http://cellar.org/2010/gladiator.jpg

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Many of the skeletons also had one arm that was stronger than the other, consistent with the frequent handling of a weapon.

"The arm asymmetry would also be consistent with weapons training that had already started in teenage years," Hunter-Mann said, "and we know from Roman accounts that some gladiators entered their profession at a very young age."
Of course that could be explained here.

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Pearcie (AUS) 06-10-2010 01:35 AM
Spankin it
 
HAHA! That's classic Bruce, I thought the same thing (what bloke wouldn't). We all know boys are fascinated with their weapon from a very young age (and most of us don't grow out of it) :eyebrow:

Pearcie (AUS) 06-10-2010 01:37 AM
BTW Cool Post
 
All jokes aside this is pretty bloody interesting. Nice one Bruce. (and Oh Yeah! 1st eva 1st post)

Gravdigr 06-10-2010 02:55 AM
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...Most of the skeletons were violently decapitated...
Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?:neutral:

limey 06-10-2010 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 662047)
Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?:neutral:
Yes, but I think it's probably more painful ...?

Trilby 06-10-2010 07:30 AM
What a suck=y job, Gladiator. Hot, noisy, dusty, lion-y...tiger-y...

Head-cut-off-y....

monster 06-10-2010 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 662047)
Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?:neutral:
Sound's like the guy who committed suicide with a guillotine found a slightly gentler way....

ZenGum 06-10-2010 07:57 AM
Hic nos vado, hac nos vado, hac nos vado,
Hic nos vado, hac nos vado, hac nos va-a-ado,
Hic nos vado, hac nos vado, hac nos va-a-ado,
Hic nos vado, hac nos vado, hac nos vado!

Sundae 06-10-2010 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 662023)
Not in Italy, or Sicily, or Greece, but England.
Never doubt the English voracity for violence.

Sheldonrs 06-10-2010 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 662047)
Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?:neutral:
It's like I always say, "it's better to get head than to give it."

ToastyOhs 06-10-2010 09:19 AM
If watching Spartacus has taught me one thing: It's that people are basically balloons filled with blood, whose extremities will can go flying off at any moment.

Make that two things: Lucy Lawless still rocks.

Happy Monkey 09-20-2010 03:32 PM
Unfortunately, it looks if Spartacus is going to be popping any more blood baloons, he'll have to be recast.

Pete Zicato 09-20-2010 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 662076)
Head-cut-off-y....
Obscure brother to the more famous Moammar Cut-off-y.

SPUCK 09-21-2010 05:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato (Post 683598)
Obscure brother to the more famous Moammar Cut-off-y.
LOL





I see that gladiator was buried with a K-Mart road flare. Most interesting.. :o

Crimson Ghost 09-21-2010 07:26 PM
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?


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