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| Right, I've dobne a bit of digging (pardon the pun) This is the web-page of the Order that seem to have organised the protest that deals with the protest itself: http://www.xsense.co.uk/reburial/reburial.html Their homepage: http://www.druidswest.org/index.htm Article from the Western Daily Press, Wednesday, January 31, 2007 (The CoBDO aspect is a bit disputed at the moment apparently): "Druids Bid For Show Of Respect With her head facing towards the rising sun, the four-year-old child is gently laid to rest on the edge of her tribe’s hilltop meeting place in the mists of the Neolithic Age. But some 5,000 years later, Charlie’s skeleton was exhumed and [put] up on display in a glass cabinet as the star attraction at a West Country Museum. Yesterday, leaders of the regions Druid community demanded that Charlie’s remains, along with thousands of similar human relics – should be re-laid to rest in their original graves. Members of the Council of British Druid Orders (COBDO) gathered outside the Alexander Keiller Museum at the World Heritage Site of Avebury where Charlie’s bones are on show. There about fifteen druids in ritualistic attire performed a touching 40-minute ceremony calling for the soul of the child, refered to as a girl though no-one actually knows, to be set free. The ceremony involved members of the Western Order of Druids (WOODs) forming a circle and chanting a hypnotic mantra. In flowing green robe, Denise Price, Lady Arch Druid, intoned that Charlie’s spirit was still with its mortal remains. “Without decay the cycle of life is not complete,” she said. She added that it was “a joyous but solemn occasion to release the spirit of this little one which we can see laying inside”. Charlie was unearthed in the 1920s at Windmill Hill, a 21-acre site of three ditches which is the earliest man-made part of the Avebury stone circle complex, dating to about 3,700BC. For almost 50 years, the tiny body – buried as though the child was being lovingly put to bed – has been viewed by countless thousands of visitors. But many druids believe this was wrong and nine years ago Bath-based member Paul Davis wrote a paper calling for such bones to be re-buried. He said it was disrespectful that the child’s remains should be treated as museum artefacts." More news as we get it...  This topic is locked |  9th February 2007ce 08:48 In reply to: Pathetic Avebury protest (Pete G) |
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