Info Of Dig Finds Uk's Oldest Sacred Site

Archaeologists state a sacred burial site uncovered inward Shrewsbury inward Feb is over 4,000 years old. They state the site, which was discovered at a Greek Orthodox Church, may hold upward the country's oldest-known continuously used sacred ground.

Archaeologists excavate the site inward Shrewsbury 

[Credit: Sarah Hart]

Finds advise it has been used during every era since the belatedly Neolithic period. Carbon dating of a wooden postal service extracted during the dig showed it was placed inward the solid soil inward 2,033 BC.

Archaeologists expected the postal service to hold upward Anglo-Saxon. Other finds on the Oteley Road site included a calf, a grunter in addition to a domestic dog that died spell giving birth.

"The dates accept shocked us all," said atomic number 82 archeologist Janey Green. "It appears the electrical flow Medieval church building is built over the site of an ancient heathen burial solid soil that's been inward purpose from the belatedly Neolithic menses through the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon in addition to through to today. The solely other British site of a Christian church building that is known to appointment dorsum to the belatedly Neolithic menses is at Cranborne Chase, inward Dorset, simply it is a Norman ruin."

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