Archaeologists have discovered a set of human remains that they told Newsweek sheds light on the violent past of the Anglo-Scottish border region. A team with local contractors Border Reivers ...
SWINTON, SCOTLAND—Chronicle Live reports that human bone fragments have been discovered in disturbed soil in the area of Swinton Parish Church, which is located in Scotland near the Anglo-Scottish ...
For more than three centuries, the land where Scotland and England meet was a lawless hotbed of anarchy, ungovernable even by the crown, as Scottish and English clans waged brutal raids on one another ...
The theft of livestock, kidnapping for ransom, murder, mutilation, burglaries and tit-for-tat feuds had been ongoing in the areas since the late Thirteenth century and he resorted to hanging his way ...
Jon Tait, from Rothbury, has collected a grisly record of hangings, beheadings, and drownings doled out as capital punishment to the cross-border raiders who plagued the area from the 13th to the 17th ...