Dr. Francis McIntosh
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So immediately that's a bit suspicious.
You know, they have to be outside of the boundaries of the settlement.
You know, they're underneath the floor.
I mean, it's not like you've been buried your dog in the back garden or something.
And then one of them had a dagger in the rib.
Oh, yeah, that's quite a big signal there.
So it's, you know, what we cheekily call the murder house.
You know, what's going on there?
You'd have thought, even with the smells of sort of the ancient world, the smells of two bodies might have raised something.
But, no, we have no idea.
One's a man, one's a woman, we think.
We need to get sort of osteology to double-check that nowadays.
But, yeah, what's going on there?
I mean, you've got, say, at Housesteads, when it's fully garrisoned, 800 men who are trained to fight, you know, haven't really got anywhere to go.
There's going to be trouble, isn't there, I think.
Yeah, so at Halsteads, we've got a building that we've identified as a hospital.