100 Skeletal Remains Found During Excavation For New UK Hotel
NDTV
The structures discovered during the assessment of the site are planned to be included in the design of the new hotel complex, while the skeletal remains will be "removed, cleaned and submitted" for more analysis.
In a shocking incident, a 1000-year-old burial site was found during excavations for a new hotel in Dublin, UK and around 100 skeletal remains from the Middle Ages were unearthed where a 12th-century St Mary's Abbey once stood, according to BBC. The outlet said that at least two of these skeletal remains are from the first half of the 11th century.
Beannchor, the company which is constructing its Bullitt Dublin hotel there, had ordered the excavations, as per the outlet. One of the recently discovered graves has carbon dating that is 100 years older, proving that there existed a Christian population in the area even before St Mary's Abbey was constructed. Building foundations from the 1600s were also discovered during the archaeological work at the location, which originally housed Boland's Bakery, the largest bakery in Dublin in the late 19th century.
Additionally, pieces of the "Dutch Billies" a household structure, have been discovered. It was built by immigrants in 1700 who arrived in Dublin when William of Orange assumed the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1689.
