The bird's continuing attention to the coin caused the grime that coated the surface to be removed little by little, exposing the metal glint more fully to the firelight, and to those who would recognize such, an image.
Taking a cue from the bird, the doctor began to inspect the bodies as well, though his inspection was less into whether they had coins or rings inside their pockets, but the general condition of the bodies as well. He had a lantern with him that he used to shed light upon the situation.
"Oh, my. This is certainly not good. No, not good at all. From the condition of these, I would have to say the bodies would have been dead for some time now. Not too long, but not a short time either. Long enough to have been buried."
Mansfield moved to the neck, now focusing on the area of the apparent decapitation.
"A fairly clean cut on all of these. Methodical. Not a surgeon's hand, though, I can say that much. Thankfully not a scalpel. Something like an axe. Brute force, but one swift blow. No hacking away or anything. Might even have been the blow that killed 'em." The doctor tucked down the shirt on one of the bodies, and frowned.
"What's this now?" He moved from one body to the second, doing the same thing.
"Here too," he murmured, before checking the third.
"And here again. Not a coincidence, I think."
Looking up to whoever was keen to take notice, he said,
"Come now, have a look at this. There's a tattoo, just here, just above the heart on all three of these men. The areas are clean, and they were recently done. Crudely, though."
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