Burial in Farnane — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Human and horse bones lay tangled in the ditch fill of Castle Comfort, waiting seven centuries for a cattle pen to break the soil. The dead had not chosen a grave but a border, their marrow mixed with horse flesh and brown silt until the living could no longer separate them. They belonged to the stronghold, not the sky, and the stronghold kept them without praise.

In May 1988 human remains were discovered during construction of cattle pen, c. 1m below ground level. A brief archaeological investigation revealed that the bones, which also included horse bones, were disarticulated and deposited in a brown silty soil. This deposit was probably part of the fill of the ditch of adjacent Castle Comfort (LI014-017002-). A radiocarbon date for the bone yielded the calibrated date of 1290-1430 AD. (NMI) An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 281-282. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 August 2012

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