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'Europe's Oldest Battlefield' Just Got Stranger With New Evidence of Outsiders Involved (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

As the team noted in their paper, no helmets and breastplates typical of the time have shown up from archaeological excavations of the site, so more digs may be necessary to reveal more about the ancient combatants at Tollense, the remains of many of whom remain on the site.

Probably picked clean after the battle. I would think scavengers knew that this was a location that yielded scrap metal following the battle.