Archaelogists, working at the Driffield Terrace site in York have unearthed some 80 skeletons dating from the 1st through 4th centuries CE. Based on current evidence, they believe it to be a Gladiator graveyard from the Roman settlement of Eboracum.
The skeletons, most of them decapitated and one showing the bite marks of a large carnivore (possibly bear, lion or tiger) show evidence of weapons training from an early age.
