3,000 YEARS OLD
SKELETONS FOUND IN IRELAND Great importance is attached to the discovery in a quarry on a farm in County Meath of two urns and two skeletons. One of the skeletons is that of a girl aged about 15, and tlfe other that of a woman. From the ornaments, and the engravings on the urns, antiquaries establish their origin as about 1,000 years B.C. The skeletons are wonderfully preserved. Indeed, in the case of that of the woman the bones of the entire body and all the limbs are so perfect that it was easy to conclude that the body has been left lying on the left side. The bones of both hands encircled a small red-coloured earthen urn, and the head had been so inclined as to give the impression that the spirit of the dead person might feed from the urn.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 19
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1453,000 YEARS OLD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 19
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