An entire army sacrificed in a bog

[pocoloco]

Can't remember if this is now linked to one of Lt-Col's posts or not but here goes:

Archaeologists have found skeletal remains of an entire army in an ancient mass grave in Denmark. The bones confirm reports from written sources of shocking Teutonic massacres.A Danish bog has been harbouring a terrifying secret for thousands of years.
Archaeologists have spent all summer excavating a small sample of what has turned out to be a mass grave containing skeletal remains from more than 1,000 warriors, who were killed in battle some 2,000 years ago.
“We found a lot more human bones than we had expected,” says Ejvind Hertz, curator at Skanderborg Museum.
The discovery of the many Iron Age bones has attracted international attention, partly because the body parts are macabre per se, but also because the bones are surprisingly well preserved. Furthermore, the find confirms a Roman source’s description of the Teutons’ atrocious war practices.
The site is located in the Alken Enge wetlands near Lake Mossø on the Jutland peninsula.

rest of it here.

[Piirka]

Teutons, your secret is out. The UN should embargo Teutonia and possibly do a resolution for some punitive bombing.

[Astaran]

Nice find, thank you

[Fallap]

Denmark stroooong!

[commanding]

That is just amazing! Heads nailed to trees. Being killed with an iron axe in battle. The bog oxygen free area preserved the wood shaft of the iron axe and the bones, and DNA of the soldiers. also amazing is the bodies were evidently left out and animals knawed on the bones and ate the flesh and bones were not tossed in the bog for maybe a year. That must be an exciting find for the archaeologists.

[Quietscheentchen]

Must have been a major battle for this area and time with more than 1,000 killed? I always assumed that most battles back then in this part of Europe were fought by rather small armies.

EDIT: I wonder how sure they can be that the remains are from one single battle. Maybe one tribe in this area simply threw the killed enemies of several fights into the same place over a period of time?