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Mass grave found at building site

Mass grave found at building site | Archaeology News | Scoop.it

Police and forensic archaeologists have sealed off a building site in North Ayrshire after the discovery of a mass grave.

 

The site once housed Ravenspark Hospital, which was formerly an asylum and poorhouse in the 19th century.

 

Historian and author Peter Higginbotham notes in The Workhouse website that a report by the General Superintendent of Poorhouses in 1892 alleged that "paupers dying in this house, whose bodies are not claimed by friends, are buried in an enclosed part of the garden".

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Egyptology News: Amarna Fund Raising - the Big Give Christmas Challenge

Egyptology News: Amarna Fund Raising - the Big Give Christmas Challenge | Archaeology News | Scoop.it

JustGiving appeal to raise money for the next stage of the conservation of the Amarna Period coffins from the recent excavations has reached its target. The conservators will resume their work at Amarna in the latter part of the year.

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