INFANTICIDE by prostitutes in a late-antique brothel in Buckinghamshire?
Nearly a hundred infant burials were excavated there a century ago, but are only now being properly analyzed. The somewhat similar find of about the same number of infant corpses from about the same period in a sewer at Ashkelon, Israel, has been ascribed to prostitute infanticide, although this explanation is not without difficulties. David Meadows discusses the problems with this theory for the Buckinghamshire find.