Bronze Age cairn dig at Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber

[Judi Lynn]

2 hours ago



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Digs have been carried out at the site over the last few summers to learn more about its past


An excavation is under way on the site of a suspected 4,500-year-old burial cairn that lies next to one of Wales' most important prehistoric monuments.

Experts are hoping to learn more about it and its relationship to Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber at Anglesey.

The 5,000-year-old "passage tomb" is aligned to coincide with the rising sun on the summer solstice.

Dr Ffion Reynolds said the cairn showed the site remained a "special location" centuries after the chamber was built.

More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-48609543?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-story

[GemDigger]

2. Yes and no.

I love the history part but jeepers, I wish they would let the dead Rest in Peace. Imagine the fun they will have digging us all up in the year 2525.

But I do love the history.

[GemDigger]

4. That is mostly a brilliant idea. Brilliant would be ON our coffins and not in our coffins.

[GemDigger]

6. Now that! is brilliant!!

[GemDigger]

8. I am absolutely sincere. If they are going to dig me up (not that I am anything)

I have repeatedly told my son that I would rather be food chain material. I would rather be bear bait and useful to nature than useful to grave robbers. People have dug up enough bodies that they do not need to continue, a journal would fix that. I find it disrespectful. Or if a person must go in the ground, don't write Rest In Peace on it if they intend to disturb the body.


If I had a rare disease that would help scientists cure it would be an exception but I would know and donate my body. I am an organ donor but if I get much older...... food chain material.