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Squid Tempest Feb 24, 2011 22:16:46
Replying to CianMcLiam

CianMcLiam wrote:
Think it's safe enough to share these now it's been aired! I shot a series of pics while they filmed the sequence of the pig cremation, something primal about watching a body (even a pig) being consumed by a funeral pyre you helped to build.

Hope this works: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=174615&id=594544906&l=f36f0a7e5d

Sorry to be a downer, but how exactly was this a good use of the life of an animal? everyone knew exactly how it would burn etc, so it couldn't be classed as a scientific experiment.

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CianMcLiam Feb 24, 2011 22:22:39
Replying to Squid Tempest

As far as I know the pig was ordered from a local butcher close to filming, it would have been sold on the counter if it hadn't been burned.

The forensic anthropologist featured in the series was there and she was very interested in how the experiment went, how the temperature of a large pyre of local wood over a long period would match with the remains recently analysed from within Knowth.