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The murderous reputation of one of Britain's best-known Roman towns has been raised by the discovery of a child's hastily buried skeleton under a barrack room floor. Archaeologists at Vindolanda fort near Hadrian's Wall are preparing for a repeat of a celebrated coroner's inquest in the 1930s that concluded two other corpses unearthed near the site were "victims of murder by persons unknown shortly before 367AD"...

 

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What with this, and the Murder House at Housesteads' vicus, there's a historical murder mystery novel/film just waiting to be written/made. The 'detective' could be the educated Greek Major Domo of a camp commandant. And the murderer? Too obvious really . . . it's the one you least suspect. What we need now is a love interest . . .

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