Ireland Dig Reveals Multiple Burials

DUNGARVAN, IRELAND—According to a report in the Irish Sun, volunteer archaeologists in County Waterford have uncovered human remains, including fragments of a skull, jaw, and teeth, which may date to between 300 and 400 years ago. The discovery was made during excavations at Gallow’s Hill, a large mound in Dungarvan that was once the site of a twelfth-century Norman castle. Researchers believe that one of the burials likely dates to a period of warfare in the seventeenth-century—perhaps the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland or later Jacobite uprisings. Another interment may date to the period that gave the site its name, when it was used as a location for executions by hanging. To read more about the archaeology of Ireland, go to “The Vikings in Ireland.”