Overhead view of the skeletons found in the mass burial pit.Picture: John Cronin & Associates
Posted on 06/19/2022 9:01:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The men whose centuries-old remains were found buried under a landmark Cork city pub with their hands tied behind their backs “met a violent and gruesome end”, archaeologists have confirmed.
And it has also emerged that a second major archaeological discovery, a 1,000-year-old defensive ditch, found nearby on the site of the former Nancy Spain's pub on Barrack Street suggests that the mediaeval city was bigger than previously thought...The nature of the gruesome find made headlines around the world.
It has now been confirmed that the skeletal remains of six people in total, all male, were found on the site.
Four were dumped together in a shallow mass grave, with their hands tied behind their backs. Three were aged between 18 and 25.
Radiocarbon dating places the remains between the mid-1400s and the early 1600s, a turbulent and violent time in Irish history, with Munster and Cork the focus of two Desmond Rebellions, the Nine Years War which culminated with the Battle of Kinsale, and a revolt in Cork City in 1603 following the death of Elizabeth I, after which the citizens of Cork rose up against English rule and the precursor to Elizabeth Fort, just 80m from the burial site, was burned down.
...archaeologists were also stunned to discover a previously unknown defensive ditch about 80m away, on the same site, which has been dated to around 1,000-years ago.
Its location some 300m from what was previously regarded as the extent of settlement of the mediaeval city suggests that the homes of those who lived in 11th century Cork extended much further south along the southern banks of the river Lee than anyone ever thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishexaminer.com ...
Overhead view of the skeletons found in the mass burial pit.Picture: John Cronin & Associates
Being dead with hands tied behind the victim’s back is a bad sign.
I’ve decided that it’s best to die before your hands are tied.
Government has been murdering its people since the beginning of time.
Were they misbehaving like the snakes and frogs. ?
“Dead men tell no tales” Long John Silver
Lol,title woild make a good,babylon bee title ie
“Man buried under Nancy pelosi’s wine bottle corks emerges after being missing for years”
Clearly a mass suicide. ;^)
Were they vaccinated?
“All of the men were thought to be close associates of a local chieftain, Hillaree O’Clintoon, before their suicides ...”
Governments: the leading cause of non-medical deaths since recorded history ...
Nice!
What did they know about the Clintons?
how did those skeletons not decompose?
Some do — and do so in their own good time — some don’t.
Wet non acidic soil and buildings constructed over the site.
In the fwiw department, I nor my ancestors, who owned the pub next door (Kehoe’s) had anything to do with it.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
5.56mm
Prolly “insurrectionists.” Adam O’Schmitt and Liz O’Cheney delivered the coup de grace. They didn’t need no stinking hearings.
With a grandfather from County Cork, there is a credible if small chance that the dead or those who killed them are among my ancestors.
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