Alan24 Posted 13 July , 2018 Share Posted 13 July , 2018 (edited) Piece about 120 bodies found at Hill 80 on BBC Breakfast this morning at 06.22. Al Murray also on later in his capacity as patron of the charity carrying out the dig. Alan. Edited 13 July , 2018 by Alan24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 13 July , 2018 Share Posted 13 July , 2018 I'm just watching it. I'm not that convinced about the comments given by the interviewed person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelcave Posted 13 July , 2018 Share Posted 13 July , 2018 Which Hill 80? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 13 July , 2018 Author Share Posted 13 July , 2018 10 minutes ago, nigelcave said: Which Hill 80? Wijtschate whitesheet. Www.Hill 80.Com Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin DavidOwen Posted 13 July , 2018 Admin Share Posted 13 July , 2018 I was pleased to see this given mainstream tv time. Sad it had to be fractured though but pleased to see Me Murray standing up to be counted. I am not sure I would be too comfortable living in the soon to be built houses as ww1 is too recent in history, is that me being too sentimental? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOVE23 Posted 14 July , 2018 Share Posted 14 July , 2018 Are there any plans to DNA test these soldiers to try to ID them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bardess Posted 14 July , 2018 Share Posted 14 July , 2018 For those not in the UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margosh Posted 14 July , 2018 Share Posted 14 July , 2018 14 hours ago, DavidOwen said: I am not sure I would be too comfortable living in the soon to be built houses as ww1 is too recent in history, is that me being too sentimental? I thought that too but in one interview I saw someone made the point that wherever you are there you could be living on or walking over battle 'remains', which I suppose is true. This is a multi-property development, I have no idea how much investigation is done before a single building. 4 hours ago, JOVE23 said: Are there any plans to DNA test these soldiers to try to ID them? They have thousands of artefacts to go through. Specialist teams will work on the human remains, they don't have a definitive figure as yet for how many found until they have thoroughly assessed. I don't know about DNA testing but I understand that they will investigate wherever possible to see if identify can be discovered. They know German, French, British and (I think, I will double check and correct if wrong) South African soldiers were found. Margaret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margosh Posted 14 July , 2018 Share Posted 14 July , 2018 There were quite a number of media articles about DigHill80 yesterday, the fiinal day on site. I have just seen this one: https://www.dw.com/en/crowdfunded-archaeology-dig-hill-80-explores-the-wwi-ypres-salient-battlefield/a-44668778 This article is in German but some of the videos and interviews are in English. Sticks in the ground with an orange top show location of human remains to be excavated. The chap in the red hat is the explosives expert. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/der-erste-weltkrieg/dighill80-eine-einzigartige-weltkrieg-stellung-15679763.html Margaret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdr Posted 14 July , 2018 Share Posted 14 July , 2018 https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2018/07/13/128-soldaten-wijtschate/ clip in Flemish about the dig Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wandererpaul Posted 14 July , 2018 Share Posted 14 July , 2018 (edited) It was a crowd funded dig. I made a small donation. I've had several updates over the last few months via email. most of the soldiers unearthed are German, I believe from Bavarian regiments(?), with a number of British men too. this plot of land is to be built on soon and the archeologists has a small window to excavate the area. I just hope they have found all those who fell. Edited 14 July , 2018 by wandererpaul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 15 July , 2018 Share Posted 15 July , 2018 I have been researching a lot about German cemeteries etc. and the fact that so many were found there, seems to indicate that the German units around Wijtschate didn't exhume and rebury the 1914 graves to new concentration cemeteries in 1915-1917 as they did elsewhere on the Ypres front. I had already suspected this but these seem to be confirmed now. Strangely enough, the Allied (British) grave registration units after the war missed these completely as well? Very remarkable... Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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