Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Charnel house gives up its secret: 1,000 human bones

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Charnel-house-gives-up-its.6786940.jp

A STONE AGE burial chamber in Orkney has yielded a gruesome haul of more than 1,000 human bones, it was revealed yesterday. The 5,000-year-old human bones - numbering at least 1,000, but possibly as many as 2,000 - were found in just one of the five chambers of the Banks Tomb on South Ronaldsay.

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