Hunting trip uncovers bones from time of Brian Ború

pajero2005

As title says.

http://www.nationalist.ie/the/Hunting-trip-uncovers-bones-from.5527324.jp?articlepage=1

Careful where you let them dogs go diggin :eek:

johngalway

I love the first two paragraphs of the story, and not because they're related to the headline.

bunny shooter

John you thinking what I think your thinking

This is in my area and I have some local knowledge the paper obviously don't have.

As far as I know the land this guy was hunting "rabbits" :rolleyes: on is preserved and the vermin is/was always controlled by the local gun club, which I am almost certain Mr. Reilly is not a member of :eek:

Sfinn

likewise,

Rabbits, dogs, fox, 5ft hole? It sounds like something from the Middle Ages!!:D

johngalway

bunny shooter wrote: »

John you thinking what I think your thinking

This is in my area and I have some local knowledge the paper obviously don't have.

As far as I know the land this guy was hunting "rabbits" :rolleyes: on is preserved :eek:

I am Bunny Whether the paper phrased it in such a way or they were told, it's quite amusing from my POV

pajero2005

The first two paragraphs would lead you to belive he was after something apart from rabbits and old bones.....

The dogs must be either very badly trained (not coming when called:mad:) or very well trained (doing as they were trained to do:eek:)... Depends on what side of the fence you are sitting on.

Then again maybe it was just lost in translation by the journalist :rolleyes:

mac80

I remember when a relation of mine was out walkin his dog and his dog found a body :eek::eek:
It turned out to be that of a captured brit soldier back in the early 80's

Police and TV crew were all over the place after the find.

Mac

BryanL

There is a picture of the entrance to the burrow so i think it's safe to assume it was a fox hole.
Many of us hunt rabbits with terriers during the summer and avoid foxes until later in the year.
Bryan

Mellor

However it will take several more months of testing by archaeologists before they can tell any more about the bones, whether they are male or female, or if there is any evidence of how they died.

The above doesn’t exactly make the archaeologists sound the most competent. As long as they were full skeletons, it shouldn’t take long to figure out sex (bare child perhaps). And I would imagine that if the death was violent then evidence should be quite obvious (eg broken neck)

She said when she first saw the bones she was struck how they had no clothing on them and wondered if it had been very poor people, or people who had died in the Famine.

Yeah, I wonder where their clothes went??? It’s only been 1000 or so years in the soil. :D:D


Joking aside, it’s a shame it wasn’t bogland as would of preserved the bodies far better.

Dusty87

Mellor wrote: »

Yeah, I wonder where their clothes went??? It’s only been 1000 or so years in the soil. :D:D


Joking aside, it’s a shame it wasn’t bogland as would of preserved the bodies far better.

I noticed that too. Ah they must have been very poor to have no clothes. And 'people who only wanted men as heir's'. Whos goin to do the cooking:)? Poor Noleen's mind is goin a mile a minute!