Aug
27
Spanish workers think historic tomb is picnic area, fill it with concrete – WBRC FOX6
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(RNN) – Workers in Spain repaired granite slabs in what they thought was a broken picnic area. It turned out to be a 6,000-year-old tomb.
The Neolithic tomb is on a national register of historic sites and was created by the first settlers of Cea, a town in the Galicia region in northern Spain.
“The rolled concrete and modern picnic bench have caused irreparable damage, replacing what was a prehistoric cemetery of the first inhabitants of Cea…” the group Grupo Ecolozista Outeiro wrote in a report to Galicia’s public prosecutor, according to The Local.
The mayor of the town claimed he had no knowledge of the heritage site. But the Department of Culture, Education and Universities told a local paper in 2008 that the tomb had been authorized for archaeological research, and the town government had been informed.
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