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HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES MAY HAVE SHOWED EXACTLY HOW GANGS OPERATED AS HISTORIANS DISCOVERED GROUPS WITH SIMILAR STRUCTURES TO THE MOB ROAMED BRITAIN OVER 1000 YEARS AGO, CARRYING OUT
ATROCITIES AS THEY DID SO 21:21, 25 May 2025 Mafia gangs roamed Britain executing rival tribes Game of Thrones-style in bloody turf wars in the Iron Age, new research has revealed. For
almost a century, history books have blamed invading Romans for the mass slaughter of native tribes at hillforts. But radiocarbon dating of human remains dug up in 1936 at one of Europe’s
biggest hillforts has revealed the victims were actually killed 100 years before the Romans arrived. Instead of an invading army carrying out atrocities as they swept their way across the
land, ‘localised gangland infighting’ was behind the brutal slayings. Rival groups similar to the Mafia or something out of the TV series Game of Thrones fought one another to control
territory. Evidence shows victims were killed by ‘lethal weapon injuries’ in public displays as warnings to others not to fall out of line, experts say. Dr Miles Russell, principal academic
in prehistoric and Roman archaeology at Bournemouth University, has spent years researching a burial site at Maiden Castle near Dorchester, Dorset, where 50 people’s remains were found 90
years ago. He said: “We can now say quite categorically that these individuals died a long time before the Romans arrived and over a long period of time - not in a single battle for a
hillfort. “The deaths were a series of gangland-syle executions. “People were dragged up there and put to death as a way of one group exerting control over another. “These were Mafia-like
families. “Game of Throne-like barons with one dynasty wiping out another to control trade links and protection rackets for power. “What we are seeing is the people who lost out being
executed. “Most of them had cranial trauma with no sign of defensive wounds. “They were repeatedly struck with a sword to the head with the skulls smashed to oblivion. “You are talking
overkill, not a single death blow. “These were gangland executions carried out in a very prominent and obvious way as a warning to others.” The ‘war cemetery’ at Maiden Castle is one of
Britain’s most famous archaeological discoveries. In 1936 dig director Sir Mortimer Wheeler suggested the deaths were the result of a ‘furious but ultimately futile defence of the hillfort
against an all-conquering Roman legion.’ This account was accepted as fact and became an iconic event in popular narratives of Britain’s ‘Island Story’. But research shows the executions
took place between the late first century BC and early first century AD. Romans did not arrive in Dorset until 43AD. Dr Russell said: “Since the 1930s the story of Britons fighting Romans at
one of the largest hillforts in the country has become a fixture in historical literature. “It features in countless articles, books and TV documentaries and has become a defining moment in
British history, marking the sudden and violent end of the Iron Age. “The trouble is it doesn’t appear to have actually happened. “The archaeological evidence points to it being a case of
Britons killing Britons and the dead being buried in a long-abandoned fortification. “The Roman army committed many atrocities but this does not appear to be one of them. “After they landed
in Essex the invading Romans fought organised armies of kings or queens in defensive positions. “But as they moved further west the people and communities they encountered were more
scattered and it was very difficult for them to dictate to people that they were under their control. Article continues below “By this stage the Romans were more about exploiting territory
and getting money out of it. In the Mendips it was extracting lead, in the Weald in Sussex it was iron and in Dorset farming.” The discoveries at Maiden Castle also call into question how
other archaeological cemeteries have been interpreted.