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Medieval skeleton bursts out of the ground after centuries-old tree is ripped up by storm
Irish Times ^
| 9-13-15
| Sam Webb
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.
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KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; collooney; fartyshadesofgreen; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; ireland; knocknarea; medieval; middleages; sligo
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To: blam
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posted on
09/14/2015 4:54:00 PM PDT
by
BlackVeil
('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
To: Straight Vermonter
There was an episode of “Bones” that had the same thing happen...and she knew gender immediately. :{)
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posted on
09/14/2015 4:55:02 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/14/2015 4:55:44 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: Straight Vermonter
Can you imagine the landowner when he went out to check on the downed tree!
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posted on
09/14/2015 4:57:26 PM PDT
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Straight Vermonter
geez...who threw their cigarette butt in the hole.
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:00:08 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Studies show that some people say experts agree!)
To: Straight Vermonter
Ripped out of your grave by a tree? That’s a Beech!
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:01:22 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: Straight Vermonter
Global warming is raising the dead.
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:01:33 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: gorush
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:02:26 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: 4yearlurker
Mayhap someone gave him a last cigarette before they killed him. ;-)
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:02:59 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Out of my mind ... back in 5)
To: Straight Vermonter
To: 4yearlurker
That is some kind of measuring devise.
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:03:41 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: BlackVeil
Medieval skeleton bursts out of the ground after centuries-old tree..."I don't think anything "burst" out of the ground. Good grief. Wind blew tree over and exposed some bones, centuries old, belonging to some long ago person.
Go Trump!
To: gorush
I think the pelvis bone was present in that episode. Looks like its missing in the photo.
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:08:42 PM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: aomagrat
Global warming is raising the dead.LOL! You Win!
IYAOYAS
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:10:55 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: inkfarmer
I know, I hate it when my skeleton does that...:)...
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:11:36 PM PDT
by
Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: Straight Vermonter
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:13:35 PM PDT
by
Hugin
("First thing--get yourself a fire"arm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
To: Hugin
Look, maybe I didn’t say every tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:20:14 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Straight Vermonter
This site will become haunted.
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:23:17 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: TigersEye
Absolutely the best post of the day!!!!!
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:23:34 PM PDT
by
3D-JOY
(Time to donate. Please do not ignore it! Monthly is best and easiest!)
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