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Wed 11 Nov 2009Priceless dignity rather than building frenzy
The remains of thousands of people disturbed by building works must be given the respect they are due, writes SARAH CAREY
ALMOST A year ago, I wrote about a graveyard discovered during the construction of the M4 motorway near Enfield in Co Westmeath. If you ever take the west-bound off-ramp at Enfield, you’ll be driving over a plot known locally as Scaruppa. In advance of the motorway works, archaeologists spent months exhuming bodies from two separate burial sites on the land.
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