You won't believe what they found under Rome
Here's the thing about Peterborough, we've got our share of old stories, things that make you wonder about the river's flow through time. But when I read about this discovery in Rome, it really made me think about what people do when they're trying to keep the waters calm, even after someone's passed on. Archaeologists there, digging in an old Roman burial ground, found three skeletons with iron nails driven right into their chests. Not just a couple, mind you, but *on* their chests. The experts think it was some kind of ritual, a way to make sure the spirits of the dead didn't get restless, didn't come spilling back over the banks into the world of the living. Can you imagine?
It just makes you stop and think about the sheer weight of belief, doesn't it? What kind of fear, what kind of hope, leads you to do something like that for someone you've lost? You see old burial sites up along the Otonabee, or out near Curve Lake, and you feel that connection to the past, the different ways people honoured their own. But nails in the chest? That's a whole different current running through history. Makes you wonder if any of our ancestors up here ever tried to "dam up" a spirit from coming back to haunt the homestead by the river. Not something you typically hear about down at the Saturday farmers' market, that's for sure.
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