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Call for medieval remains to be buried in Preston

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 04 April 2007
By Matthew Squires Lancashire, England - A leading historian is calling for medieval remains unearthed at a building site to be re-buried in Preston Parish Church. Thirty graves, 12 of them containing virtually complete skeletons, have been discovered at a development site behind the city centre's privately-owned Brunel Court halls of residence on Marsh Lane. Experts from Oxford Archaeology North believe the graves are the likely remnants of a medieval friary located in Preston from 1260 to 1539. And now an order of Franciscan monks, similar to the ones who used to reside in Preston, have expressed an interest in burying the skeletons in their own cemetery in London. But historical experts today said the bones were part of Preston's heritage and should stay in the city. Stephen Sartin, associate curator for Lancashire County Museum Service, said: "If you start moving bones around which have been there since medieval times, where does it stop? "If we are going to move them at all I am sure that order of monks would have wanted to be interred at the site of the most historic church in Lancashire – Preston Parish Church." David Ward, curator at South Ribble Museum, said: "There are rules and regulations about the handling of human remains. The accepted thing is they should be reinterred at their original site or at a suitable local graveyard." http://www.lep.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2223334&SectionID=73

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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Taphophiles Speak

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“The silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.”

Kahlil Gibran

From Broken Wings , 1910