To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
04/19/2012 11:48:09 AM PDT by
Perdogg
To: marshmallow
Wow! That skeleton is extremely well-preserved.
4 posted on
04/19/2012 3:06:11 PM PDT by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: SunkenCiv
The skeleton of a portly figure was discovered almost by fluke when emergency repairs had to be made to the abbey at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. 
From the look of it, those "emergency repairs" are a few centuries late in coming. Had to wait for government funding, perhaps?
6 posted on
04/19/2012 8:55:55 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: marshmallow; SunkenCiv
There is more of the Abbey left than the picture implies. It's in the Lake District, which is a very lovely part of England.
To: marshmallow
It was on a trip this past summer to the Lake District that I learned about the industrial revolution wrought by the Cistercians in England. Fascinating.
10 posted on
04/20/2012 9:06:02 PM PDT by
Oratam
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