What is recorded here
Edmondstown holds a buried dead field beside Martin’s Fort, where bones and whole skeletons lay exposed in the eastern soil. That much is record, not legend. The interesting part is what the field did with people: it gave up its dead to rain, plough or curiosity, then took them back. A burial ground is not a mystery of monsters. It is a place where human life stopped paying attention to its own shape, and the earth continued the conversation without witness.
Bones and skeletons found close to ‘Martin’s Fort’ (LH013-010----) and in field to E according to local informant (ASI file report, 27 June 1966). (Possibly same as LH013-009----)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 May 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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