Skeleton Found With Severed Foot

[ScarlettR]

https://amp.irishexaminer.com/break...oot-with-skeleton-in-co-roscommon-894309.html

 

[ramonmercado]

https://amp.irishexaminer.com/break...oot-with-skeleton-in-co-roscommon-894309.html

TII archaeologist Michael Stanley said two “enclosure sites” stood out as unusual, among several sites excavated on the Oran scheme.

“The people who created the enclosures appear to have piled the material excavated from the deep ditches to form a bank on the outside, rather than on the inside,” said Mr Stanley. “This suggests a prehistoric date and ceremonial function for these sites. “However, a human skeleton, with its severed foot placed between its legs, was discovered at the base of one of the ditches and scientific dating is eagerly awaited to help try and solve this grisly mystery.”

A sheaf of flax, approximately 1.5 m long, was found in the ditch of an early medieval ringfort, called Lissaniska (‘the fort of the water’), on the N70 near Milltown, Co Kerry.

https://amp.irishexaminer.com/break...oot-with-skeleton-in-co-roscommon-894309.html

Or might be a victim of the Land Wars or even mor recent "Get Off My Land"!
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[Frideswide]

That flax is very interesting...

 

[ramonmercado]

That flax is very interesting...

 

[ScarlettR]

I was wondering maybe gangrene or such and the foot amputated but the person died anyway.

There was an excavation a few years back in Roscommon where skeletons were found with large rocks in their mouths.

 

[ramonmercado]

There was an excavation a few years back in Roscommon where skeletons were found with large rocks in their mouths.

Testing them to see if they were sham rocks.

 

[Naughty_Felid]

I was wondering maybe gangrene or such and the foot amputated but the person died anyway.

There was an excavation a few years back in Roscommon where skeletons were found with large rocks in their mouths.

So why do you think they needed to keep the jaws open?

 

[EnolaGaia]

... There was an excavation a few years back in Roscommon where skeletons were found with large rocks in their mouths.

... As discussed in this thread:

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/ireland-eighth-century-zombie-graves.46336/

Similar finds across Europe have been claimed to represent attempts to ensure the deceased doesn't or can't return. The press tends to salt the accounts with allusions to vampires or zombies.