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ADAM WILLIAMS, COURTESY ALBION ARCHAEOLOGY

FENSTANTON FIND. A Roman-era gravesite near Fenstanton in southeastern England furnished one more example of a heel bone pierced by a nail. Dated between the second and fourth centuries, it is much later than the one from Givat ha-Mivtar. Yet it reflects the same Roman execution practice and similarly shows that, contrary to later Christian tradition, the feet would not have been nailed together on the front of the cross but rather to either side of its vertical beam.