howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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good to see museum exhibits on general display in the library.
expert opinion is divided as this one, some say the remains are of a saxon warrior whilst the more cynical believe it to be simply someone who waited too long to be served in the "eight bells"
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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That slim fast stuff can be a bugger
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We see alot of cultural crossover by just going into Dovers high st.
Brian Dixon
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nah poped his clogs while waitng for ditz to start.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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At least he is smiling !
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Are there not two skeletons?
The one given the top bunk he perhaps insisted upon has a fearful grimace, even though he went to great lengths to prove that you can take it with you...at least so far.
The lower one seems to be laughing his head off, and has perhaps found happiness in repose disencumbered by worldly goods.
A lesson for us all.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that's socialism for you.
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How long does a body have to rest before we cease to treat it with the dignity we usually accord to human remains?
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I must say Peter I too have a sense of disquiet with the objectification of human remains. I am all for archaeologists fumbling about in the earth, the better to understand and appreciate times long past and the display of some artefacts, but I see no reason why the human remains cannot be re-interred from whence they were dug. I have noticed that later, identifiably Christian, burials are treated with the respect that all the bones should have. With photography and 3D imaging there is no necessity for treating the remnants of once living breathing persons as grave goods. Personal items, such as the spear and the shield should go back with the body too.
Rather than our becoming more respectful this violation is on the increase, as I have posted. With the desecration of sea-bed war graves.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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actuley,its george and david of the tory kind in there second job,minimum wage though.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I totally agree, Tom. Human remains ought to be treated with reverence and respect, not put on display as a museum exhibit, no matter how old they are.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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peter,there is a full skeleton in a cabinet in a museam in warterloo [belguim],the label stated a freanch hussar from the battle of waterloo.
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Ah, so respect is only required if we know the dead person's name?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Actually if you go into K&C hospital through the fracture clinic entrance there is a full skeleton hanging in the waiting room on the left just past reception. I once thought it was a poor chap on the waiting list.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i must admit i found it creepy to see the mummified remains of people in the british museum, i remember that one was of a teenage girl called cleopatra.
didn't seem right to me.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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It is worse than that Howard, human remains that were exhibited only after a visit to the taxidermist have been repatriated to the antipodes in recent years; Moari people with living relatives.
While I am fairly certain that Cleopatra was indeed once a teenager, I'm not so sure she died quite so young.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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peter,the chap in question had no name,but just to add that the osuri in verdun full of bones on view to all and sundry.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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For many years it was common practice to dig bones up from churchyards and put them in an ossuary, to make room for more burials, I.e. as at Hythe. Churchyards have been used since before their records began, for burials, the majority of which would not have had memorials, so layer upon layer ensued over the years.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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is that st leonards kath?
