One area of archaeology that fascinates me are deviant burials - burials deviating from the norm, such as execution victims. I'm lucky, there are deviant burials at nearby Galley Hill & Five Knolls - both Saxon. All featured decapitations, some amputations. 
The fascinating thing about these deviant burials are that 1. Both occurred near old Bronze & Iron Age barrows & 2. Both occurred on hilltops. It's as if the victims were placed in what were considered 'liminal spaces', haunted, away from the protections of home/church.
It's always fascinating to see one people's holy site become another's place of dread and fear. One of the barrows at Five Knolls contained a woman, about 35 years, buried with a knife. Her skeleton showed she often wore a headdress - a powerful priestess of 3000BC or so.
Elsewhere on Five Knolls, more touchingly, an 18 year old woman was buried with her child, surrounded by fossilized starfish - this was a few thousand years earlier, apparently.
Man, I'd like to get to see more archaeological sites - just need a car!
