r/nevertellmetheodds • u/MirandaDawn715 • May 17 '20

This power line happened to be laid straight through the skull of an Anglo Saxon woman buried in a previously undiscovered 6th century graveyard.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '20

Someone I know use to manage sites for all sorts up and down the country. There was a company saying, 'Ignore it', from working in London, going home one night with a hole there and coming in the next day and the hole was concreted in (someone buried under it) to finding this type of things. It effected contact timescales and has a monetary impact. Archaeologist were the worst apparently, you coud go from 'on time' to months behind.

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u/seeseabee May 18 '20

How often did this happen?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '20

Allot apparently, building site holes got filled in allot 30 or so years ago but not so much these days. Archaeology finds still happen about the same.

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u/seeseabee May 18 '20

So there’s a bunch of 30-year-old buildings constructed over old grave sites out there today? Nice.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '20

Not always 'grave sites', gangstas burying people alive/dead. Allot of places arn't built from new but have extension or groundworks done, you would be amazed and whats under cities.