jueves, 29 de agosto de 2013

Four thousand year old sheepskin recovered from burial cist in Sutherland

The Spinningdale cist burial. Image: GUARD Archaeology Limited 
When a prehistoric burial was accidentally discovered in September 2011 during the construction of a septic tank at Spinningdale in Sutherland, GUARD Archaeology were called out to investigate and made an extraordinary find

Through Historic Scotland’s Human Remain Call-Off Contract, the GUARD Archaeology team, led by Iraia Arabaolaza, were commissioned to excavate a stone cist, built within a substantial pit, containing the remains of a crouched inhumation of a middle-aged adult female (35-50 years) with signs of spinal joint disease.[...] pasthorizonspr.com/

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