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  • Archaeologists Found a Truly Bizarre Burial in an Isolated Medieval Graveyard

    12/17/2021 6:36:39 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 36 replies
    Science Alert ^ | December 15, 2021 | Peter Dockrill
    A three-week archaeological dig in the English Channel took a bizarre, inexplicable turn, after researchers chanced upon a carefully cut grave hidden in the soil – the contents of which were definitely not human.The discovery, made on the small island of Chapelle Dom Hue off the coast of Guernsey in September 2017, revealed the ancient remains of a medieval porpoise buried in the earth, and archaeologists were at a loss to explain the story behind this mysterious animal tomb."It's very peculiar, I don't know what to make of it," archaeologist Philip de Jersey from Oxford University in the UK told...