Thread for CFH/BoxingGorilla/Bilbo and any others

[CFH]

I came across another archaeological find over the weekend.

The find occured when a hill was being excavated. As the hill was being excavated, the team uncovered what appeared to be a body standing up.
The initial investigation was launched so as to ascertain why a body was buried in a standing position and it was thought that some Celtic soldiers were buried standing to attention.

However a carbon test revealed the remains to be a lot older and revealed their own story.

The remains arethought to be that off the original Irish people. A mysterious race that little is known about. They either integrated with the Celts or we're exterminated thousands of years ago.
They came ito conflict with the arriving Celts and as the Celts were more aggressive or war competent, they were forced to live on the backfoot.

In this particular scenario, the remains are supposed to be that of a man who dug a small tunnel into the side of the hill (maybe twelve feet in. He then made a chamber in which he could stand and dwell for a short period of time. He would reside here while being chased and attempt to draw his pursuers into the cavern. As they would follow him crawling he would then stab them in the neck as the crawled into the cavern which he would have entered earlier.
IUt is supposed that this man was either suffocated through the use of smoke or the entrance was blocked, serving him a torturous death.
Lovely.

Did they describe the evidence that lead them to this conclusion?

[donnydarkoIRL]

I came across another archaeological find over the weekend.

The find occured when a hill was being excavated. As the hill was being excavated, the team uncovered what appeared to be a body standing up.
The initial investigation was launched so as to ascertain why a body was buried in a standing position and it was thought that some Celtic soldiers were buried standing to attention.

However a carbon test revealed the remains to be a lot older and revealed their own story.

The remains arethought to be that off the original Irish people. A mysterious race that little is known about. They either integrated with the Celts or we're exterminated thousands of years ago.
They came ito conflict with the arriving Celts and as the Celts were more aggressive or war competent, they were forced to live on the backfoot.

In this particular scenario, the remains are supposed to be that of a man who dug a small tunnel into the side of the hill (maybe twelve feet in. He then made a chamber in which he could stand and dwell for a short period of time. He would reside here while being chased and attempt to draw his pursuers into the cavern. As they would follow him crawling he would then stab them in the neck as the crawled into the cavern which he would have entered earlier.
IUt is supposed that this man was either suffocated through the use of smoke or the entrance was blocked, serving him a torturous death.
Lovely.

Did they describe the evidence that lead them to this conclusion?

Carbon dating...to confirm timescale obviously.
I think bone fragments were taken and found to differ from typical Celtic makeup, decisively proving that it was of the ancient Irish.
Irish Folklore gave mention of men disappering into hills, I believe there were similar cases in Meath...

After that I'm afraid I'm unsure

[Dizaster]

Cool stuff.. Makes me miss having the Discovery/History channels

I love absorbing a good history documentary every now and then...

My favourites are definetely the ones regarding old civilizations... Insane stuff they built back then... I would love to be able to travel back to those days and discover how they built some of their structures, and what knowledge they had.. It's truely amazing and awe inspiring what was done by the supposably "primitive" people.... Some things border on unexplainable even by todays technologies... Some things they built, would today cost billions and billions of dollars and take 100's of years, and we would NEED some of our most advanced and gigantic machinery just to complete the task... They did it all by hand with supposably limited or no technology or knowledge..

Simply amazing...

[donnydarkoIRL]

I too really like the History channels, but with my lifestyle, I never get to sit down!

I'm particularly interested in the Aztec, Celtic and Greek/Roman empires.

[CutMeMick]

Wow! that is insane...

Good stuff guys really enjoyed reading that.

[TheChosenOne]