Burial ground in Lambay Island — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Lambay Island in County Dublin, Ireland, is a quiet burial ground where coastal erosion exposed human bones near a chapel. One skeleton lay with a piece of mortar and snail shells at its stomach, suggesting a person lived or died there centuries ago. The sea keeps giving back what time buried, reminding visitors that even small islands hold deep human stories.

Human remains exposed by coastal erosion in 1991 on the W side of Lambay Island, c. 110m to the NW of the chapel. These consisted of the partial remains of a single extended skeleton, oriented NW/SE with the head to the NW (O'Floinn, 1992, 16). In the area of the lower stomach a large peice of mortar and many snail sheels were found. Bone samples produced a calibrated date of 1470-1665. The discovery of other human bone at the site indicates that this was probably a cemetery (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 238-247). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 14 February 2013

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