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i would like to see an open catalogue of all the human remains detected at or recovered from Avebury, including West Kennet Long Barrow, and where they are now? i do believe all these remains - where displaced - should be respectfully gathered and brought together, somewhere secure and local to the area?

ric

m6 wrote:
i would like to see an open catalogue of all the human remains detected at or recovered from Avebury, including West Kennet Long Barrow, and where they are now? i do believe all these remains - where displaced - should be respectfully gathered and brought together, somewhere secure and local to the area?

ric

Good idea.

m6 wrote:
i would like to see an open catalogue of all the human remains detected at or recovered from Avebury, including West Kennet Long Barrow, and where they are now? i do believe all these remains - where displaced - should be respectfully gathered and brought together, somewhere secure and local to the area?

ric

there are in the local Devizes museum and the best place to keep them safe is, er, Devizes museum...

M moss

Did not a certain doctor from Marlborough grind up some of the bones from WKLB in some tomfool quackery...
As a matter of interest Ric, how and where would you see them buried? If you see the longbarrows as a tomb, by rights bones should go back into the tomb but in this instance the longbarrows have now taken on other roles, a) as a tourist attraction and b) as a place where modern day people come to pay their respect to old religions....Answering my own question, perhaps Windmill hill people should go back to their own ground and the same applies to bones found by stones, as for WKLB somewhere local to the barrow but with no markings... and curious as ever, would you advocate the same for roman/saxon/christian disturbed bones...