The nail had been embedded in the right heel and ankle of a man aged between 25 and 35 at the time of his unpleasant death
IAN MORRIS/ALBION ARCHAEOLOGY
It was a small discovery –a nail of just a few inches long, hammered through a skeleton’s heel. Yet it’s been hailed as both the best evidence yet of Roman crucifixion and the first example of its kind ever uncovered in the UK.