Diggers were recently searching around the mysterious St Saviours, and what they found left them surprised. The diggers were clearing up the ruins of a structure located in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, where they found a holy site which might date back to 600 years.
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Burial site or Mass grave?
According to Metro, the excavation site was apparently a friary for the Dominican community. A friary is a place that houses groups or communities of friars. Friars are further divided into four mendicant groups: Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans, and Franciscans. After digging around for a while, excavators discovered hundreds of skeletal remains.
One-third of the skeletons belonged to children. They also found a skull with puncture marks on it, which might have been caused by a flying object in a projectile motion, these findings suggest that ‘medieval warfare’ took place at the time of the destruction of the structure.
Friary in ruins
The site is suspected to be a friary due to the financial transactions that were recorded by a church. The head of the Dyfed Archaeological Trust, Fran Murphy revealed that there are over 300 bodies, however, they are not sure of the exact number. Fran Murphy explained:
We know it’s there because of a series of monastic references, mainly records about money… At its height there were apparently eight friars who were part of the friary before it was dissolved and past into private hands.
It was dissolved in the 1530s with one of the friars scrubbing his name from the list of friars at the priory which is peculiar and might have been a protest to it closing
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