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Orkney's '2,000-year-old murder'

A body found in Orkney was likely to have been a murder victim dating back as far as 2,000 years, it has emerged. The skeleton of the man was found during an Iron Age site excavation at Mine Howe, Tankerness.

Tests have now revealed that the body met with a violent death and had been dumped in a shallow grave.

Read entire article at BBC