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Interesting story, but certainly doesn't appear to be archaeology.  My view of their website indicates that these are amateur excavations by a history professor and his reverend brother.  I am troubled by any story that starts with "we pulled a skull from the ground."

Bob Genheimer
George Rieveschl Curator of Archaeology
Cincinnati Museum Center
1301 Western Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45203
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Subject: Secrets of mass grave revealed


Interesting little report on a small piece of history: a mass grave,
possibly of Irish immigrant railway construction workers, possibly victims
of cholera or cholera-induced anti-immigrant hysteria:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7961564.s
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