Archaeologists have today opened the only known grave on the castle ruins in Valkenburg. The tomb contains a skeleton from the period around 1600.
Who is in the grave is the big question that researchers will be looking at. “This is the best research for me in recent years,” says archaeologist Xavier van Dijk. Together with his colleagues, he wants to use isotope and DNA research, among other things, to give the skeleton a name and find out what the cause of death was.
That’s difficult, because little is known about the tomb that was discovered in 1925. The grave was quickly covered with a concrete slab. “A total of four sentences were written on it. That it was found, that it was covered again and that a pedestal was placed on the grave with the text ‘grave of an unknown, discovered and restored in 1925′”, says Van Dijk against 1Limburg.
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