Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain

Internationally significant' discovery of male with burial chains in Rutland is first of its kind

His ankles secured with heavy, locked iron fetters, the enslaved man appears to have been thrown in a ditch - a final act of indignity in death.

Now the discovery of the shackled male skeleton by workers in Rutland - thought to have been aged in his late 20s or early 30s - has been identified as rare and important evidence of slavery in Roman Britain and an internationally significant find".