New study debunks Roman massacre myth at Maiden Castle, Britain’s iconic ‘war cemetery’ A new archaeological report by Bournemouth University (BU) is redrafting one of the most important pages of British history. Long believed to be the location of a bloody massacre during the Roman conquest of Britain, the “war cemetery” at Maiden Castle in Dorset now appears to have a more complex—and less Roman-centered—story to tell. In a study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, BU researchers conducted a new re-analysis of the Maiden Castle burials, complete with new radiocarbon dates. In contrast to the long-held presumption that the dozens of bodies discovered at the site were victims of a single, catastrophic Roman attack, current evidence suggests that these individuals died over a period of decades, between the late first century BCE and the early first century CE... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/study-debunks-roman-massacre-myth-at-maiden-castle/