A car, surely not…!
One of our more interesting finds of the 2014 excavations was a car! It was placed there during land restoration in the 1970s, which included burying rubble, and for some reason a car, to fill in the hollows. Here it is being removed.
After the car was removed it was found to have been sitting on long cist graves, shown here. It is suspected that a layer of graves actually lay above these ones, as semi articulated bone was found mixed in with the car parts.
Here are the two graves upon which the car had lain they are long-cists graves. The skulls were removed for safe keeping in February 2014 after the storms.
Their skulls had been removed in a previous excavation for safe keeping. They were now able to be reunited after this excavation. These burials were dated between 900 and 1025 AD.
The western end of the chapel was removed in 2019 in order for us to excavate underneath, click on the image bow to see before and after on the site.
