Late-fifth-century Swedish massacre site excavated

[Imperial Dave]

interesting that no one wanted to or took the time to bury them so an isolated village or one that had been 'set off limits' by the perpetrators

Yes.  You could test the isolation theory with a bit of field work.  If there do seem to be local settlements then they are shunning the place for a reason e.g.  warned off, superstition, they wiped the place out.

I think it was stated somewhere that the area had a large amount of settlements and so the likelihood of close proximity of another village would be quite high (unless that had the same treatment as well!)

[Jim Webster]

interesting that no one wanted to or took the time to bury them so an isolated village or one that had been 'set off limits' by the perpetrators

Yes.  You could test the isolation theory with a bit of field work.  If there do seem to be local settlements then they are shunning the place for a reason e.g.  warned off, superstition, they wiped the place out.

What would also be interesting (if possible) would be to see whether the wiped out the settlement but kept farming the land. But it would be amazingly lucky to come up with evidence for that after this length of time

[Imperial Dave]

interesting that no one wanted to or took the time to bury them so an isolated village or one that had been 'set off limits' by the perpetrators

Yes.  You could test the isolation theory with a bit of field work.  If there do seem to be local settlements then they are shunning the place for a reason e.g.  warned off, superstition, they wiped the place out.

What would also be interesting (if possible) would be to see whether the wiped out the settlement but kept farming the land. But it would be amazingly lucky to come up with evidence for that after this length of time

very tricky i guess. its one of the more interesting conundrums thrown up by archaeology