Bramham Iron Age skeletons to go on display in Leedspublished at 14:28 BST 29 August 2017
Two Iron Age skeletons uncovered beside the A1 near Leeds are to go on display in the city for the first time.
Image source, Leeds Museums and GalleriesThe 2,000-year-old bones lay side by side under land near Bramham, said Leeds City Museum.
Once the location of a late Iron Age settlement, Wattle Syke was the resting place of a man, aged about 25 to 35, and a woman over 45.
They were found buried together in archaeological excavations during 2007 and 2008.
In all, a dozen skeletons are to be displayed. The other Yorkshire remains include a soldier discovered in a mass grave near the site of the Battle of Towton in 1461 during the Wars of the Roses.
Also part of the exhibition are the remains of a medieval female religious hermit from the Church of All Saints in Fishergate, York.























