LONDON, ENGLAND—Cremated human bones have been found packed in an old cooking pot, near the site where Roman-era skulls had been found along the former banks of the Walbrook River. It had been thought that the skulls had eroded out of burials and tumbled downstream, but the cremation burial suggests that skulls could have been placed there. “Certainly no river ever carried off the cooking pot with its cremated bones which was unquestionably deliberately placed here. And the horse skull we found with one of the skulls didn’t come out of some equine graveyard, that was clearly also placed there,” Jay Carver, lead archaeologist of the Crossrail project, told The Guardian. The skulls may have been ritual deposits, or the remains of executed criminals. Some think the skulls could be from the first-century rebellion led by Boudicca, queen of the Iceni tribe, against the Romans. “I think we now have to look back at earlier finds in this area—we have found 40 human and two horse skulls, but if you add them up over the last two centuries you’re talking hundreds of skulls in a very small area—and try and work out what is actually going on,” Carver said. To read about the search for the final resting spot of the great Iceni leader, see "Boudicca: Queen of the Iceni."