[Stones] Time Team on Barra

[Ric]

--- The Webmistress <the.webmistress at virgin.net>
wrote:

> on 5/6/07 5:38 PM, Tim P wrote:
> 
> > The team found the perfectly preserved skeleton of
> a middle-aged woman, two
> > kists with infant remains and the cremated remains
> of a third.
> > Post-excavation tests by Wessex Archaeology in the
> next few months are
> > expected to reveal all kinds of details about life
> and death on Barra as far
> > back as bc2000.
> 
> And then what? Stick them in a museum to be gawped
> at? Probably not even on
> the island?
> 
> -- 

let us hope these remains are indeed respectfully
returned to the island, should they be removed for
examining: restored to, ideally, a purpose-made
building; i do hope the same fate that befell the
remains recovered from West Kennet Long Barrow will
not be repeated here, that these bones are dispersed
to collections, radiating out to almost every
conceivable degree of the compass?

exciting discovery, however.

Ric