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Article: Chariot of war that swung low on the A1; Unearthed in Yorkshire, a stunning Iron Age burial site with one skeleton, two wheels - and 10,000 animal bones.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2003
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Byline: TIM UTTON
IT was a feast fit for a king. As huge fires were raised to honour their dead leader, hundreds of cattle were led in and slaughtered to provide food for a great ceremony.
The mourners of the Parisii tribe ate, drank and chanted as they marked his journey into the afterlife - complete with an ornate war chariot to speed him on his way.
Followers came from miles around to pay tribute to the warlord and see him off in regal style befitting Britain circa 500BC.
And when the festivities were over, he was buried - chariot and all - in a pit hewn out of limestone rock.
Two-and-a-half thousand years later, surrounded ...