(CW human remains, child)
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Great to see more of Dublin's Viking archaeology but is the evidence and interpretation a bit contradictory here? Evidence says the child was wrapped in a shroud, yet interpretation says "not given a proper burial/dumped" https://www.rte.ie/amp/1167539/?__twitter_impression=true

If the body was dumped would they go to the effort of a shroud etc?
I know context is everything and this is just from a news report so looking forward to seeing the publication. There have been some incredible recent discoveries that cast new light on Viking and Medieval Dublin

That said I did excavate a 10th century 'deviant' burial in County Galway, where a teenage girl was buried outside the cemetery enclosure in a north-south orientation. The skull was all that survived, and it was buried with 'earmuffs' (stones placed either side of the skull)

Again makes you wonder about why they buried someone so against custom, yet still carried out some of the aspects like the earmuffs etc. Not dumped, but definitely different.

The past is a foreign place and all that.