Three units of skeletal stays have been discovered beneath Nakhon Si Thammarat’s central sports activities stadium, believed to be from an historical cemetery over a century old. The archaeological discover was made throughout building work for a drainage pipe behind two football fields.
An evening inspection, following the report of the invention, was led by Police Captain Thanathorn Panchu, Investigation Officer on the local Nakhon Si Thammarat Police Station, and forensic investigators. The site is situated in Tha Wang Subdistrict, Mueang District, behind a pair of football pitches at Nakhon Si Thammarat’s provincial sports activities centre. The skeletal fragments have been discovered clustered shut collectively throughout the development work space.
The excavation was to determine a drainage pipe, working from south to north, with the use of a backhoe to dig approximately 1 metre into the bottom. At three factors alongside the road of the hole, human bones had been unearthed. The fragments, akin to forearm, leg bones, and craniums, have been found roughly 20 to 30 metres apart, representing three individual units of stays. Intriguingly, the unearthed bone structure appears somewhat bigger than that of today’s human bones.
Private numbering a quantity of dozen were additionally found. The peculiar placement of the stays, resembling a row of graves or historical mausoleum alignment, led to speculation by officers that these skeletal stays might doubtless be remnants of long-buried people from a bygone period, predating the construction of the central sports activities stadium at Nakhon Si Thammarat.
The land, previously owned by the Chat Trakankosol family, was generously donated to Nakhon Si Thammarat for the sports ground’s building several decades in the past. The neighborhood probably encompassed both an outdated graveyard or an ancient mausoleum website, reported Sanook.
Interestingly, a parallel can be drawn with the former website of Sri Thammarat Suksa School, where key historic figures in Nakhon Si Thammarat’s history are recognized to have been interred inside related mausoleum alignments for over 200 years.
This precedent got here to gentle amidst the current excavation work conducted as a part of the football area improvements within Nakhon Si Thammarat’s central sports stadium. During the construction of a drainage pipe on the western facet of the coaching ground, the mentioned skeletal stays had been found inside the ancient cement blocks..