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A statue of a Roman sea God had its head ritually cut off before it was buried. The artefact was found a little distance from the old Roman road known as Watling Street. Archaeologists found it during a dig along with other items such as a Roman coin, but historians are baffled as to why the statue was ritually decapitated and then buried.
Kent Online · Statue discovered next to A2 was ‘ritually decapitated’ before burial
Why? Because someone's spouse was coming from Rome and the last leg of the trip was by boat, and it sank in the channel in good weather.
Agreed- I'm baffled too. The article link does explain that the statue was ritually buried and not dumped at sea.