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Scattered Roman bones point to potential fourth-century purge at Brading Villa

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Disarticulated bones found scattered across a luxurious Roman villa on England's Isle of Wight may be evidence of a massacre carried out during a brutal political purge in the fourth century, a new study in Britannia suggests.

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