Posted on 09/14/2015 4:51:36 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Archaeologists were stunned when the thousand-year-old skeleton of a young man was found among the roots of a tree ripped from the ground.
Storms blew over a 215-year old beech tree outside Collooney, Sligo, Ireland, unearthing a human skeleton.
The National Monuments Service commissioned Sligo-Leitrim archaeological consultancy Archaeological Services (SLAS) to excavate and retrieve the badly disturbed remains.
The burial was that of a young man (17-20 years old) and it id believed he suffered a violent death during the early medieval period.
Radiocarbon dating puts the man's death at 1030-1200 AD.
Several injuries were visible to the ribs and hand, probably inflicted by a knife.
He had been given a formal Christian burial, however.
As the photos show, the lower leg bones remained in the grave; but the upper part of the body was entangled in the tree roots and raised up into the air.
A more in-depth analysis of the remains is underway.
Last week archaeologists in Sligo found the bones of a Stone Age child and an adult in a tiny cave high on Knocknarea mountain near the town.
Radiocarbon dating has shown that they are some 5,500 years old, which makes them among the earliest human bones found in the county.
The adult was aged 30 to 39 and the child of 4 to 6 years. It was not possible to establish gender.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! So dat’s where ye been hidin’ all dese years have ye Shamus? Get up now ye lazy bugger and get to church!
That’s because she can estimate the width of the hips and tell whether it’s a woman or a man.
All I could think of was the Crypt Keeper from those movies.
Hey... these are the OAKS, folks!!!
How do you get a skeleton in a tree?
Put it on an acorn and wait 200 years.
There are apparently many ways (according to the show) and all extrapolations are only two computer clicks away. :{)
“There was an episode of “Bones” that had the same thing happen...and she knew gender immediately. :{)”
Male or female condom? ;-)
That movie scared the crap out of me as a kid.
I read...sons of beeches??? The oak might be on you??
This is gruesome and fantastic. I love it.
Geesh, you can’t even go to Ireland without tripping over a @#$% Indian burial ground . . .
And the dead shall rise...
:-)
To both of you, well played!
Wonder if there was “”+VLFBERHT+”” sword buried with him ?
Hence the phrase: "goin' medieval on..."
Me too
Sometimes for a few minutes I get to just play and forget how close our country is to collapse...now back to reality!
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