The shore of the river Thames in London, close to where the woman’s remains were found Crispin Hughes/Alamy
A woman was tortured for days, killed and then put on display at the side of the river Thames in central London around 1200 years ago. The case is thought to be one of the only examples of a judicial execution of a woman in medieval England in the archaeological record.
This isnt the story of one blow, and its not clandestine, says at the University of Toronto in Canada. Its the story of purposeful violence, and…
