Bungling builders destroy 6,000-year-old Neolithic tomb - and replace it with concrete PICNIC TABLE

Mirror (UK) ^ | Friday, August 28, 2015 | Sam Webb

[SunkenCiv]

The tomb was a relic of the first settlers in the Spanish Cristovo de Cea region and was originally built some 4000 years before the birth of Christ.

Every builder, tradesman and DIY enthusiast knows the embarrassment of making a howler on the job, whether it's taps installed the wrong way round or a wonky shelf.

But few will know the sheer panic these Spanish workmen probably felt when they discovered they had smashed up a 6,000-year-old Neolithic tomb and replaced it with a concrete picnic table.

The tomb was a relic of the first settlers in the Cristovo de Cea region in the north-western Spanish region of Galicia and had been originally built some 4000 years before the birth of Christ.

But local council workers who were apparently ignorant of the historic nature of the site thought it was simply a broken stone picnic table, and replaced it with a brand-new concrete picnic table.

Galicia's Department of Culture, Education and Universities has said it has launched an investigation after being flooded with complaints about the picnic table, that sits on a concrete slab in the village of Ardesende in Cristovo de Cea. Prosecutors are reportedly also investigating.

[SunkenCiv]

[CEN] Relic: The site in 2008. When it was still a tomb of important historical significance

[SunkenCiv]

We don't have a standard "facepalm" graphic for GGG pings, but if we did, we'd use it here.

[Jim from C-Town]

Picnic table looks good though.

[Bogey78O]

At least put up a marker.

[beethovenfan]

Sounds like they’re qualified for a US government job.

[gorush]

As Art Linkletter used to say, “People are Funny”.

[shibumi]

If ISIS did this would the picnic table be the “Allah Snackbar?”

[TigersEye]

Fred and Barney ate ribs on that picnic table.

[hal ogen]

Typical government workers.

[Twinkie]

It just looks like a pile of big rocks with a peppermint stick pole stuck in them. No sign that I see in the photo. Understandable.

[shibumi]

[TigersEye]

LOL

Now you’ve got me wondering how big a corn fed feed lot mammoth could get?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

When it was still a tomb of important historical significance

I am going to say, "Apparently not."

There is no sign of ongoing excavation and no sign of the past excavation resulted in even so much as a plaque saying what it is and what they found.

[tumblindice]

Nice move Homos.

[SunkenCiv]

No, actually, it isn't.

• Destruction of Palmyra's Baalshamin temple 'a war crime' BBC News

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

Same goes for buried phone lines — there’s no marker for 99% of their length either.

[Squawk 8888]

Here ya go ;)

[HiTech RedNeck]

If the prehistoric folks who erected it could have known that their old monument would be replaced with a spiffy new one 6000 years later — they might have said “cool!”

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

True. Also irrelevant.

This was not something that was thousands of miles long spreading out like a spider web but something that could have easily been marked.