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Saxon punishments

Physical evidence of how justice worked in Anglo-Saxon England has been found at the Saxon judicial execution cemetery at Harestock on the outskirts of Winchester. Archaeologist Andrew Reynolds and lawyer Harry Potter discuss the prominent location of the site and how the remains of one of the sixteen skeletons from the site provides evidence of execution by decapitation.

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