Construction employee ‘abuses’ 1000-year-old stays discovered at new lodge web site
Harrowing footage of a construction worker ‘abusing’ human remains at an excavation site has been uncovered. The footage shows a site worker laughing, poking and prodding the bones on a site in Ireland.
The man’s weird behaviour has been slammed by a local councillor and the National Museum of Ireland which says the site’s archaeologists and the police force are now involved.
The footage, which first appeared on Snapchat, was shared to X and showed the worker, who is not visible in the video, approaching the excavation site, touching the remains and wobbling the skeleton’s tooth back and forth.
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Taking to Instagram, the museum wrote: “The National Museum of Ireland and the National Monuments Service are aware of footage of alleged interference with ancient human remains on an archaeological excavation in Ballyfermot.
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“We are liaising with the archaeologists on site and An Garda Siochana on the matter. Given that this footage shows human remains we would ask people to refrain from sharing it on social media.
Cllr Hazel De Nortúin also took to X to criticise those involved. She wrote: “Trying to preserve a 600AD Pagan burial site in Ballyfermot and people are down there flicking it’s (sic) teeth. I just can’t. Save our Irish Heritage, is it?”
The site at Ballyfermot is understood to be a burial site dating back more than 1,000 years and was discovered during excavations for a new hotel in the Dublin city centre last year.
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Around 100 skeletal remains from the Middle Ages were found in an area around Capel Street where an abbey once stood.
Some of the remains are believed to date back to the 11th century and are being excavated and analysed before they go to the National Monuments Service.
Other structures found during the site examination are set to be incorporated into the design of the new hotel complex.
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