Ep 2. Battlefield of Bones

Outside a small village in northern France, a routine archaeological dig of an Iron Age site unearths a macabre case - thousands of human bones. Most shocking of all is that there are no skulls. Hundreds of bodies appear to have been hung up in rows on a wooden structure and left to rot and fall to the ground. A smaller number of bodies, also headless, were buried in a more orderly fashion with headstones marking each grave. Were these people ritually killed and displayed or the victims of a huge battle? A team of archaeologists investigates.