Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said. Teeth imprints from a large cat were found on the pelvis of a man buried in a cemetery believed to contain the remains of gladiators. The man is estimated to have been aged between 26 and 36 years old when he died and appears to have lived during the 3rd century AD, when York was known as Eboracum and was a town and military base in the Roman province of Britannia.