800-year-old monk found poking out of cliff face

The Telegraph ^ | 10 Mar 2014 | Sarah Knapton

[Sawdring]

The legs of an 800-year-old medieval monk have been discovered, poking out of a cliff face in Wales.

Although badly damaged and missing their knees, shins and feet, the thigh bones were found after the fierce recent storms caused severe coastal erosion.

[Darksheare]

“We see you hiding up there!”

[Zathras]

That’s a winner!

[CrazyIvan]

Buddhist monk? Oen Lee Shin?

[biggerten]

What!? It’s just a flesh wound!

[null and void]

I’m thinking the monk wasn’t bad at dancing because he certainly didn’t have two left feet. I’ll be here all week!

I heard he was de-feeted at the dance off...

[TexasCajun]

Handsome young man, back in his day!

[bkopto]

No, you’re both wrong! - That there’s Cankles under the house. Look at the cankles!

[bkopto]

I find these posts humerus...

I find them rather ephFemoral, myself.

[VRWCarea51]

Did anyone try CPR?

Pretty sure it’s Bush’s fault.

1st victim of climate change.

[NoCmpromiz]

.. by a 1960s vintage family sedan?

[luvbach1]

Very weird.

[exit82]

Here today, gone to marrow.

Now that was clever!

[exit82]

Well, I hope they don’t just leave the rest of him in there—he’ll suffocate!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sawdring.

[NYer]

The area of Monknash in South Wales was a burial ground for Cistercian monks in the Middle Ages. The valley is named after the Welsh saint Cewydd and was home to a community of Cistercian Monks from 1129 until the dissolution of the monasteries 1535.

"You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14

Ping!

[verga]

I was expecting to see a head and shoulders protruding from a cliff face.

Why, did you suspect he had dandruff?

[Bigg Red]

Are you sure we kneed that pun?

[Bigg Red]

Well, I don’t think you could accuse anyone of disturbing the grave in this case. I went to the source article and it talks about how the sea has eroded this part of the land — as well as a lot of other sites. The archaeologists are lamenting the fact that erosion is just taking historical sites out to sea.

[Bigg Red]

Quite a find. It’s a shame that the Welsh archaeologists are losing so much to the assault of the sea.

[Heart-Rest]

Methuselah (969 years old at his own demise) was heard to mutter, “That’s the problem with these youngsters today — all they want to do is hang out and get stoned!”