Chilling execution of 'washed up' Medieval woman revealed as experts say brutal punishment was a 'warning to others'

THE remains of a roughly 1,200-year-old woman found on the shores of the River Thames have exposed the brutal punishment practices of early Medieval Britain.

London between 600 to 800 AD , or Lundenwic as it was then known, was a very different place than it is today.

The settlement, which covered the area of modern-day Covent Garden, was made up of narrow, winding streets and buildings made of timber and straw.

It had a population of roughly 8,000 people - a far cry from the 9.26million residents that live there today.

The remains of one Londoner, believed to have lived during the early medieval period between 680 and 810 AD , act as an example of these practices.

Lawbreakers appeared to be executed in the streets, according to experts, and their bodies were left to decompose fo