Bones of around 200 soldiers have already been found preserved in a peat bog
near the village of Alken on Denmark's Jutland peninsula.
Experts started digging again on Monday, saying they expected to find more
bodies dating back 2,000 years to around the time of Christ.
"I guess we will end up with a scale that is much larger than the 200 that we
have at present," Aarhus University archaeologist Mads Kahler Holst told
Reuters.
"We have only touched upon a very small part of what we expect to be there
... We have not seen anything like this before in Denmark, but it is quite
extraordinary even in a European perspective," he added, speaking by phone from
the site on damp grazing meadows near Jutland's large lake of Mossoe.
