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Excavation affirms traditions of past PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 30 June 2004
June 30, 2004
The Associated Press

CHARLESTON - Scientists excavating dozens of graves beneath the stands of The Citadel's Johnson Hagood football stadium have confirmed burial traditions and superstitions from the nation's past. At least one set of remains was found with coins placed over eye sockets, a common practice used to keep the eyes shut. Others had a few coins on the bodies, apparently to pay the cost of traveling through the afterlife.

Some coffins have viewing glass plates over the places faces might be seen. Most of the graves face east, a practice in Christianity that allows the dead to witness the second coming of Christ, according to some beliefs.

One is out of the ordinary: a body lying on the right side, body slightly curled as if napping inside a wooden coffin.

That gave archaeologist Kristrina Shuler reason to pause. She considers it possible this person was ill or in a coma and mistakenly buried alive.

There is no evidence of headstones in the area where workers are concentrating, thought to be a potter's field for the poor.

"There was no money for that," said Ralph Bailey Jr., vice president of Brockington and Associates, the Mount Pleasant archaeological and consulting firm that is doing the $149,000 recovery and removal project for The Citadel.

The graveyard under Johnson Hagood's grounds became part of Charleston lore in the 1990s when local Civil War re-enactors hunted for lost Confederates, including members of the submarine H.L. Hunley's first crew. The crew members drowned during a test mission in 1863 and were buried in the area when the site served as a mariner-military graveyard.

Eighty-three years after the war ended, those war graves, along with others belonging to civilians, were covered by concrete and cement when the city of Charleston built the 21,000-seat stadium in 1948.

Archaeologists are extracting the remains this summer as part of Johnson Hagood's renovation, which is on hold while a local and private group look at building a larger local stadium.

About 80 sets of civilian remains have been recovered so far. The excavation is expected to last into the rest of summer.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/9044590.htm
 
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