600-year-old skeleton mystery at Fermanagh crannog site


Mystery surrounds a 600-year-old skeleton found at the site of an archaeological dig in County Fermanagh.

The crannog - a man made island settlement - is situated on a site where the new A32 Cherrymount link road in Enniskillen will be built.

The woman, who was in her late teens when she died, was not buried in either a recognised graveyard or in traditional manner.

This has led archaeologists to consider the possibility of foul play.

Excavation director Dr Nora Bermingham dated the teenager’s death to around the 15th or 16th centuries.

“The skeleton of a young woman, probably around 18 or 19 with very bad teeth, was found in the upper layers of the crannog,” she said.

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