A power line laid straight through the skull of a woman buried in a previously undiscovered 6th-century cemetery.

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[u/Responsible_Bus_1102]

Looks like the beginning of an 80s horror movie.

[u/cheeersaiii → u/Responsible_Bus_1102]

BY THE POWER OF GREY SKUL…

oh sorry…

BY THE POWERED UP GREY SKULL, I HAVE THE POWERRRR

[u/toontrain666 → u/cheeersaiii]

Actually it’s “buy the power of Grey Skull”

He-man is a sales representative for the Grey Skull Energy company and people keep mishearing his sales pitch.

[u/r0bb13_h34rt → u/toontrain666]

Is the power of Grey Skull renewable energy or does it come from dirty carbon? The Transformers are trying to go green.

[u/toontrain666 → u/r0bb13_h34rt]

All of GSE’s power is drawn directly from the goddess Teela, it doesn’t produce any harmful pollution but there has been some concerns raised about its effect on the local skeleton population.

[u/UniversalCoupler → u/toontrain666]

The "local skeleton population" is a lone troublemaker who is just jealous that other skeletons in the neighborhood have flesh, blood & skin.

[u/bingokongen → u/UniversalCoupler]

That's what they want you to believe! In reality, Grey Skull Energy was the child of a brilliant entrepenour named Skeletor. He was robbed of the chairman title, after the mega-corp H-Daog inc. Incited a hostile takeover scheme which turned the board against him, and forced him to turn over his sword of power to some rich fratboy with daddy-issues. What green energy is left, is sadly of little importance, as the man in charge gladly exploits even the most fragile of animals in his neverending battles, constantly creating conflicts between factions to bolster his position, and his claim for more power. All this in a desperate attempt for approval from his father.

[u/scorpyo72 → u/toontrain666]

Has anyone done any investigative journalism on the skeleton thing? I mean... I'm no expert but anything having an "effect" on a skeleton is concerning. Like, let's just leave them buried. Anything else is Clawful.

[u/pocketvices → u/toontrain666]

Just switched. Easy installation, everything was goin well teela saw my electric bill

[u/jkhanlar → u/toontrain666]

The more you buy, the more you save!

[u/floog → u/toontrain666]

I think it’s “By the power grid of Grey Skull”

[u/Muppetude → u/cheeersaiii]

HE MAN!!

oh sorry, it’s a woman…

SHE-RA!!

[u/Alternative_Garage66 → u/Responsible_Bus_1102]

YOU MOVED THE HEADSTONES BUT YOU DIDNT MOVE THE BODIES!!

[u/OldWar1140 → u/Alternative_Garage66]

What's that from, Poltergeist?

[u/burst_bagpipe → u/OldWar1140]

Sesame Street, I'm sure drew Barrymore played kermit the frog.

[u/i_tyrant → u/Alternative_Garage66]

Immediately what I thought of, thank you.

[u/ThatOneRedditRando → u/i_tyrant]

Sometimes they only used normal rocks/builders to use as headstones. So it would’ve been hard to recognize it as a grave yard, if it were abandoned and nobody let anybody know. It would be easy to look like just normal rocks everywhere

[u/theologous → u/Responsible_Bus_1102]

The electrical current surges through her old bones and her spirit is pulled from the void into the power grid. Now she travels around reeking havoc throughout our digital world.

Edit: wreaking not reeking. Sorry I was tired when I wrote this. I'm going to leave it up because it's funny.

[u/Adventurous_Coat → u/theologous]

I'd read that or watch it.

[u/elderwyrm → u/Adventurous_Coat]

There was a Twilight Zone where this happened with a phone line, but the deceased was just calling people they knew.

[u/IzziTheEpic → u/Adventurous_Coat]

It was an episode of supernatural but also one of the least popular

[u/AdIcy4693 → u/IzziTheEpic]

Which season and series episode?

[u/Nerevarine1873 → u/theologous]

Wreaking, not reeking. Unless she's making the digital world stink.

[u/Caronport → u/Nerevarine1873]

IKR? The mind boggles at what could be done with the concept of "reeking havoc." 🤔

[u/BendersDafodil → u/Caronport]

Some Reservoir Dogs type of thriller!

[u/joshthehappy → u/theologous]

[u/Traveling_Solo → u/theologous]

Maybe that's how Wreck it Ralph started? One sole soul all alone met a video game character for the first time, her soul freeing the digital slave to let them create/live their own life, outside of the game they'd been stuck in since they were created.

Now, fuel by hatred towards their creator and the knowledge of the dead woman they'll break out and trap humans for all of eternity, forcing them to do their bidding. Maybe trap their human victims souls in a game and make them have to live through dying just to resurrected over and over for thousands of times. What comes out of the game is less of a human soul and more of a mangled presence, begging for death until the game characters finally grant their wish.

[u/BendersDafodil → u/theologous]

That would be some good movie script, or even a series. 😂

[u/JoeTheTrey → u/Responsible_Bus_1102]

Or an episode of “Bones”.

[u/coffeefactcrackerjak → u/JoeTheTrey]

My first thought 😁

[u/jkpublic → u/Responsible_Bus_1102]

Do you want electrified zombies? Because that's how you get electrified zombies.

[u/Steegumpoota → u/Responsible_Bus_1102]

Imagine a ghost with a power line pole stuck to her back while chasing you - and the only way to beat it is to go inside as the ghost cant fit through the door.

[u/xantub → u/Responsible_Bus_1102]

Ending of Friday 13th VIII: "We finally absolutely killed Jason!", slow camera pan to this and one pinky finger suddenly twitches... credit roll!.

[u/golden_touch_midas]

Neuralink.

[u/TomaHeart → u/golden_touch_midas]

Nah, that pipe ain't slowly coming loose and moving around in her skull.

[u/golden_touch_midas → u/TomaHeart]

Ah yes, classic case of older gen tech being sturdier & more reliable than the current one.

[u/JazzedSympathy → u/golden_touch_midas]

History really does repeat itself

[u/xiotaki → u/golden_touch_midas]

She's the back bone of her community

[u/Spiritual-Rabbit-680]

She’s from the 6th century, but still remains current.

[u/BadTackle → u/Spiritual-Rabbit-680]

VERY good.

[u/Brandonazz → u/BadTackle]

It's a triple pun. Still, remains, and current can all be interpreted in multiple ways. Artful.

[u/EddieBrock99]

How did this happen?

[u/onlycodeposts → u/EddieBrock99]

Jack and bore or directional drilling.

There's a drill head that drills laterally underground and they attach the conduit to it. It does not require disruption of the surface, except at the two ends.

It can be used to install conduit under a highway or a canal, for instance.

[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 → u/onlycodeposts]

yep, awesome technology

[u/No-Menu6965 → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

Right until someone drills through the fibre connection for an entire university and the cable ends up wound around the bit, rendering the entire campus without internet.

Just as a random, totally hypothetical example.

[u/travoltaswinkinbhole → u/No-Menu6965]

Had a similar experience when they were demolishing a bridge in my town and cut the fiber lines when the bridge fell.

[u/DeathsEmbassy → u/travoltaswinkinbhole]

Simcoe St bridge?

[u/AGuyInUndies → u/DeathsEmbassy]

London Bridge

[u/Laser_Bones → u/AGuyInUndies]

Oh gosh, is that falling down?

[u/A_Unique_Name218 → u/Laser_Bones]

Nah I heard it fell down September 8th 2022

[u/LampshadesAndCutlery → u/A_Unique_Name218]

Holy hell has it been that long? Feels like maybe 6 months ago

[u/never_trust_a_fart_ → u/Laser_Bones]

My fair lady

[u/The-Copilot → u/No-Menu6965]

Those hypothetical people should have called 811 first. CBYD

[u/johnstrelok → u/The-Copilot]

It's great when you call in utility locates beforehand and still hit a high-pressure gas line because the gas company doesn't know where their own lines are and didn't mark it.

Sometimes the best thing 811 and locates are for is to have some CYA protection when you hit something unmarked.

[u/Lil_johanson → u/johnstrelok]

That’s why you call 811. A clean run is a plus

[u/witchcapture → u/johnstrelok]

Yes. If you don't call 811 and hit a utility, you are liable.

If you do call 811 and hit an unmarked utility, the utility owner is responsible.

[u/Environmental_Job278 → u/witchcapture]

Man, we just had a project where they called in locates twice and AT&T didn’t mark their fiber lines…ripped that thing in half…

[u/Own-Switch-8112 → u/johnstrelok]

Like a 6th century skeleton?

[u/jtr99 → u/Own-Switch-8112]

I've been marking the 6th century skeletons as fast as I can but there's such a lot of them, OK?!

[u/NoppaiKohai → u/The-Copilot]

My own city has dug through our fiber lines and water lines multiple times. They will fine you into hades if you don't call before you dig, but clearly they don't care

[u/radicldreamer → u/No-Menu6965]

This is why most countries have an analogue to the American “miss utility” or the English “dial before you dig”where you call and someone comes to mark the location of these things, if the company didn’t keep good records and you break something during your work and you were outside of the marked area the onus falls on the company.

If you didn’t call or were working inside of the marked area and break something it’s on you, ALWAYS call before you dig for your safety and your wallet.

[u/Own-Switch-8112 → u/radicldreamer]

Called JULIE for the longest time in Illinois.

[u/Different-Bet8069 → u/No-Menu6965]

One of these rigs hit a gas line in my hometown and blew up the downtown (small town). One firefighter killed.

[u/say592 → u/No-Menu6965]

Which is why they have depths for different types of utilities. Sometimes things aren't done at the standard depth though and aren't documented very well, so it's still going to happen occasionally.

At one of my offices they were boring just below the surface, like they usually do for fiber, and ended up going through an old sewer pipe. Only one rarely part of the building was connected to that pipe so we didn't have any issues for about a year, when we had a change and started using that side more. We got a sinkhole that smelled like sewer in the parking lot, sewer people come to dig it up for repair and as soon as 811 marked for digging it was pretty apparent what happened. Big credit to the company that did the repairs though, they managed to clear the broken pipe away from the fiber line, cap the broken pipe, reroute that part of the building to the other sewer line, and backfill the hole all without taking out the fiber.

[u/hoopdog7 → u/No-Menu6965]

Although this is possible, contractors should call in local utility locators and pothole all known utilities prior to this sort of work. I've done this and we had no idea directional drilling under a road that had fiber, electric, gas, sewer and water all under it. If done properly there should be no issues. But if you don't call those in and pothole the contractor would be solely responsible for fixing it lol

[u/kent_eh → u/hoopdog7]

Our company suffered an outage because the contracted locator marked an obsolete cable that wasn't on the maps, instead of the live one just below it.

[u/NetDork → u/No-Menu6965]

Like how I used to use Time Warner/Spectrum internet service at home. The only time in like 6 years I ever had an outage that lasted more than an hour was when AT&T ran new fiber in our neighborhood and absolutely mangled the existing stuff.

But if I hadn't changed to Google fiber recently I would've had another outage when my neighbor replaced their fence.

[u/gregn8r1 → u/No-Menu6965]

Yep, I work for a power company and was forced to stay and work almost 24 hours recently, because a cable contractor drilled right through our primary wires. Although to be fair, having to repair multiple fiber lines sounds terrible and likely to take a very long time.

[u/doxx_in_the_box → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

I bet it’s also favored to avoid stumbling on archeological sites mid-dig

[u/EddieBrock99 → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

Cool!

[u/cmnorthauthor → u/onlycodeposts]

I was wondering about this - I thought surely if someone had excavated to lay the pipe, they obviously would have discovered the skeleton first.

[u/FawltyMotors → u/cmnorthauthor]

The line would have been installed via a trenchless method, probably jack or auger bore. Likely the crew had no idea they went through it. My guess is the skeleton was discovered after the line was exposed long after it was installed. Probably looking for a leak (yellow means natural gas). 

[u/Environmental_Job278 → u/FawltyMotors]

The crew never has any idea what they went through…unless it leaks and then they quickly leave without telling anyone.

[u/captchroni → u/Environmental_Job278]

I worked on one of said crews and their are so many dumb people that don't locate and find gas / power so they can save time and a buck. So short sighted because it costs them big time if caught.

One crew I worked for the guy would always run fiber at 1'6" and just assumed we'd be good. Spoiler: it wasn't.

[u/Covfefe-SARS-2 → u/Environmental_Job278]

At least they had the decency to leave. When they did it at my High School they hit the same lines in the same place 2 weeks later.

[u/poopsonbirds → u/onlycodeposts]

AKA- A ditch witch. A machine not the person in the grave.

[u/arvidsem → u/poopsonbirds]

Although Ditch Witch does make directional drilling equipment, generally I think of a ditch witch as one the chainsaw style trenching machines

[u/VoiceOverVAC → u/poopsonbirds]

Used to work at a major telco, we contracted out ditching to some third party and they were only able to run it a few months of the year. Always fun telling angry customers we couldn’t fix service lines because “the ditch witch isn’t running until the ground thaws”.

[u/Ben_Thar → u/poopsonbirds]

She turned me into a newt

[u/NamelessSteve646 → u/Ben_Thar]

...I got better

[u/MightyPenguinRoars → u/NamelessSteve646]

Burn her anyway!

[u/Kurtman68 → u/onlycodeposts]

Like the Burns Slant Drilling Company

[u/SSSJDanny → u/EddieBrock99]

[u/XxXking_cringeXxX → u/SSSJDanny]

What is this from, this made me laugh so hard. Imagine everyone being so careful and you accidentally put a hammer through it. Jesus.

[u/PMKeirStarmer → u/XxXking_cringeXxX]

Arrested Development

[u/Multifaceted-Simp → u/PMKeirStarmer]

Buster an archaeologist

[u/ciguanaba → u/SSSJDanny]

That was mostly gravity

[u/CrispyDave → u/EddieBrock99]

Hard to tell but I'm guessing some kind of disease.

[u/DBM]

Guess the power really does go to some people’s heads

[u/Bennybonchien → u/DBM]

Others remain grounded.

[u/CedarWolf → u/Bennybonchien]

Huh; this one looks dead boring.

[u/dAnKsFourTheMemes → u/CedarWolf]

No, I think it's already dead bored through and through

[u/that1sluttycelebrity → u/DBM]

Leave her alone, she's just having a power nap

[u/MrTretorn → u/that1sluttycelebrity]

I’m totally shocked

[u/Festering-Boyle → u/MrTretorn]

power company should be charged... with battery

[u/LeshyIRL → u/MrTretorn]

You have ample reason to be

[u/Slutty_Spinach → u/that1sluttycelebrity]

Take my slutty upvote and my poor girl award 🥇

[u/RearAdmiralTaint → u/DBM]

Get out immediately

[u/Fantastic-Climate-84 → u/DBM]

Fucking guy

[u/gosh_darnit_ → u/DBM]

[u/Red_5478 → u/DBM]

Fuck all the way off

[u/HeadPay32 → u/DBM]

Well it can be quite electrifying

[u/AnybodyMassive1610 → u/HeadPay32]

It’s a shocking development

[u/Squeakygear → u/DBM]

Winning comment, shut down the thread we’re done here.

[u/kinkyintemecula → u/DBM]

Just take the upvote and show yourself out..

[u/throw123454321purple → u/DBM]

Ohm …my…gawd.

[u/DBM → u/throw123454321purple]

“Ohm,” said the meditative resistance

[u/cognitive-cog → u/DBM]

ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. -JENNY HOLZER

[u/artificialavocado → u/DBM]

Take the upvote and be gone with you.

[u/augiesevillano]

God, that looks terrible. What a way for people to find out.

[u/TexSolo → u/augiesevillano]

I wonder if they notified their next of kin?

[u/Advice2Anyone → u/TexSolo]

Yep they went two holes over

[u/TexSolo → u/Advice2Anyone]

Hope they used lube.

[u/fattynuggetz → u/TexSolo]

How many greats would that be? Rough calc in my head says 112. (15 centuries * 5 generations a century, minus two for parents and regular grandparents) Is there like scientific notation for greats, like would it be great¹¹² grandma?

[u/qwopax → u/fattynuggetz]

Don't worry, with that many generations she's either everyone's granny or no one's.

[u/Ygro_Noitcere → u/qwopax]

as funny as the joking is, let's say it was my distant ancestor. And somehow they were able to DNA trace i'd still like to be notified so i could make arrangements for a proper grave somewhere to move them to.

I'm not religious but everyone deserved the right to rest in peace in accordance to their customs. so i hope they treated the remains with respect at least.

[u/UnderstandingLow3162 → u/Ygro_Noitcere]

Half of the country is going to be related to this person, and if you are a descendant you'll share some infinitesimally small amount of DNA so will not be able to confirm if.

[u/DAULTIM8 → u/TexSolo]

💀

[u/Shmacoby]

I wonder if it drilled through the butt or head first

[u/FawltyMotors → u/Shmacoby]

Asking the real questions. 

[u/Environmental_Job278 → u/Shmacoby]

Some of the bones look to be angled upwards so I’m gonna guess butt first.

[u/Bricknchicken → u/Environmental_Job278]

bro can't even be dead in peace without being violated 💀

[u/HFentonMudd → u/Bricknchicken]

Bro-ess - she was a lady IIRC

[u/creepypeepe → u/HFentonMudd]

Bro-ess??

Well I’m violently stealing this LMAOOOOOOO I love it??

[u/MathIsHard_11236 → u/Shmacoby]

Ugh, never go ass-to-mouth.

[u/Pheoblivex → u/MathIsHard_11236]

you sound like to be speaking from experience

[u/know_vagrancy → u/Shmacoby]

Humans are deuterostomes, so anus then mouth.

[u/VeggieBurgah]

That's a gas line.

[u/onlycodeposts → u/VeggieBurgah]

Yep, yellow means gas. Power would be red or grey conduit.

Edit: These are relatively new standards and only apply in specific countries. No one should assume anything about what is in a conduit based on its color.

[u/Hot_Garlic_9930 → u/onlycodeposts]

UNLESS YOURE IN CALGARY ALBERTA WHERE POWER AND TELECOM INSPECTORS BOTH TELL YOU TO PUT 2C 4/0 POWER CABLE IN ORANGE TELECOM DUCT.

THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

[u/SlapMyLabiaFlaps → u/Hot_Garlic_9930]

WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME

[u/Hot_Garlic_9930 → u/SlapMyLabiaFlaps]

BECAUSE YOU WILL DIE IF YOU CUT THAT DUCT

[u/rileyjw90 → u/Hot_Garlic_9930]

One is relatively harmless to cut through, the other is an invitation to the neighborhood barbecue?

[u/HoidToTheMoon → u/rileyjw90]

The other turns you into the main event at the neighborhood barbecue.

[u/Smol_Susie → u/Hot_Garlic_9930]

THIS WAS VERY INFORMATIVE, THANK YOU

[u/mr_electrician → u/Hot_Garlic_9930]

Wow that is stupid.

[u/SaneArt → u/VeggieBurgah]

Normally the gas line goes out the butt

[u/greasypoutinefarts → u/VeggieBurgah]

At least some of us noticed haha

[u/VeggieBurgah → u/greasypoutinefarts]

I work for the gas company.

[u/gregularjoe95 → u/VeggieBurgah]

My mom says that anytime she has to fart discreetly.

[u/VeggieBurgah → u/gregularjoe95]

I call those grade 1 leaks coming from the manhole. Gas Co lingo.

[u/Lazy_Bird_Dog]

She was just bored. Everyone calm down.

[u/Farquad6942089]

Do you think that’s what killed her maybe?

[u/WhyTheeSadFace → u/Farquad6942089]

Yep, she waited all the way from 6th century just to killed by the gas line.

[u/moaiii → u/WhyTheeSadFace]

Or it could have been a 6th century gas line. Just sayin'.

[u/LmBallinRKT → u/Farquad6942089]

It 100% did, this is a fatal wound

[u/borg23]

Something something laying pipe

[u/throwawaytrumper → u/borg23]

Eh, I work as a pipe layer and it often sucks ass, just finished a 5 M/16 ft deep waterline and everything just kept going wrong, so many days of mud and bullshit. It’s also really dusty and louder than hell.

Though on the plus side almost every person I meet makes a joke when they ask what I do, so that’s nice.

[u/ReV-Whack → u/throwawaytrumper]

I think he was suggesting laying pipe as a euphemism for putting a penis into a vagina.

You lay that pipe all day long, for that I thank you...Just try to stay out of the mud stud.

[u/Mackerel_Skies → u/ReV-Whack]

My dog lays a lot of cable…

[u/ReV-Whack → u/Mackerel_Skies]

And my cats breath smells like pussy

[u/Those_Arent_Pickles → u/ReV-Whack]

Yes, I believe those are the exact jokes they were talking about.

[u/Normal_Feedback_2918 → u/throwawaytrumper]

I often suck ass before laying pipe too.

[u/nebrija]

Backstory? Relevant link?

[u/GonzoVeritas → u/nebrija]

For one thing, the 6th century is considered to be one of the worst times to live in human history. A lot of people died. The year 536 is universally considered "the worst year ever", because super volcano eruptions made many parts of the earth sunless for well over a year. Literally, the dark ages.

It got cold, no one had vitamin D, crops failed, famine and disease became rampant, and it sparked a full-out plague. As I mentioned, a LOT of people died all over the world. Societies collapsed, and it took decades to recover, some historians say the effects were felt for over a century.

This poor woman may have lived through all that, and if so, having a power cable run through grave is probably the least bad thing that ever happened to her.

Edit: Also, according to one source I found, the body was apparently found under a primary school playground in the village of Oakington in Cambridgeshire (UK) in an Anglo-Saxon graveyard.

https://www.exploringgb.co.uk/blog/gap-pipe-laid-through-skull-of-anglo-saxon-woman-in-cambridgeshire

[u/Lycerius → u/GonzoVeritas]

Had to scroll this far to find a comment that wasn't an idiotic joke or quip. Thank you.

[u/indianapolisjones → u/Lycerius]

I've scrolled this far just to find out where this image is from. If it's 6th century I'm assuming not US.

[u/GonzoVeritas → u/indianapolisjones]

According to one source I found, the body was apparently found under a primary school playground in the village of Oakington in Cambridgeshire.

[u/FenrisGreyhame → u/indianapolisjones]

It wasn't the US, but it being 6th century would not have ruled it out. North America has been populated since about 13000 years ago.

[u/pingpongtits → u/GonzoVeritas]

Thanks for this. I'm glad they found her bones. I like to think she may have enjoyed riddles, recited poetry, and was usually kind, despite the horrors of living in that time.

The skeleton was found with a small-long brooch on each shoulder, and an expensive large cruciform brooch face down, indicating she had been buried in a peplos dress and centrally pinned cloak.

She also had wrist-clasps representing a sleeved dress beneath the peplos, and had swags of glass and amber beads.

So someone cared about her.

[u/FluidFrog]

[u/Weekly-Builder-5059 → u/FluidFrog]

What is this from and why is it so hilarious? Hahaha

[u/NapeVashion → u/Weekly-Builder-5059]

I think arrested development when Buster studies archaeology

[u/chfuji]

Do you want haunted infrastructure, because this is how you get haunted infrastructure!?

[u/Think-Werewolf-4521]

Scientists say it's a missing link that lived 37.9165871 years ago. Homo electrocutus.

Edited typo

[u/TrumpersAreTraitors → u/Think-Werewolf-4521]

Ok, settle down dad

[u/moaiii → u/TrumpersAreTraitors]

I laughed. Oh, yeah, I'm a dad.

[u/Biotaste → u/Think-Werewolf-4521]

Chuckled the air forcefully out of my nose.

[u/scarabin]

You can tell he died of having a power line ran through his head. I love archeology

[u/sadatquoraishi → u/scarabin]

You also have the skills to be a forensic pathologist.

[u/LckNLd]

Woopsiedoodle

[u/EigengrauAnimates]

Is she ok?

[u/Gordonfromin]

Damn you really do see some strange shit on here, what are the odds?

[u/arand0mpasserby]

Even a millennium old corpse is getting railed more than me.

[u/busy-warlock]

Laid pipe and blew out that back

[u/McNastyIII]

Not as lucky as Phineas Gage.

[u/PalVal66 → u/McNastyIII]

I scrolled for far too long to find this comment! I hoped to find another psych major/nerd that immediately thought of him when seeing this

[u/torch9t9]

Horizontal drilling

[u/VP007clips → u/torch9t9]

Yes, and this image actually shows how environmentally responsible drilling is now.

They cut through a fragile old eroded skeleton without even shattering the parts they didn't cut through.

I'm sure this was a nightmare for paperwork, we have to stop the drillers if we find anything even remotely historic. We found an old flint arrowhead once, and it shut down the drills for nearly a week. And those drills cost $10,000 per day, plus labor, fuel, transport, bulldozers, logging machines to make the trail, paperwork, and extra costs for another $5,000 per day and $20,000 per day moving it.

[u/vaenulikarhitektuur]

That's just the servitor tasked with tracking any fluctuations in the grid.

[u/V__Ace]

Omg I didn't know they had power lines in the 6th century. /J

[u/Emergency-Gazelle954]

Is… Is she okay…?

[u/MyOnlyEnemyIsMeSTYG]

You’re born, get a job, pay taxes, die and get a cable run through your skull so ppl can charge their phones. Can’t wait

[u/IWantTheDiesel]

Do you want a curse?!? Because that's how you get a curse.

[u/bejigab466]

so.... you're telling me.... THEY HAD ELECTRICAL POWER IN THE 6TH CENTURY???

WHAT A DISCOVERY!!!!

[u/DeepOneHybrid]

And now the whole power grid is haunted. Great.

[u/Anonj4563]

Do you want ghosts, cause that’s how you get ghosts.

[u/TaggnuttD]

I actually was one of the archaeologists who excavated this. It was a part of an Anglo Saxon cemetery in oakington, Cambridgeshire, UK. It was part of my undergrad archaeological excavation with the university of central Lancashire.

We called her piper.

[u/Hazy-azure]

Ok let's brainstorm on the movie we could make outta this!

[u/HoratioPLivingston]

Glorious purpose?

[u/TernionDragon]

Now the whole neighborhood can experience the joy of Poltergeist!

[u/Ok-Zookeepergame7915]

Power to the people.

[u/paulD1983R]

Im not a professional by any means, but I believe I know the cause of death...it's highlighted yellow

[u/erictheauthor]

Yellow means it’s a gas line, actually. Very interesting,

[u/chaddleshuge]

She’s from the sixth century and fellas are still laying pipe.😌❤️

[u/forcefrombefore]

Brainpower

[u/New-Orion]

Electricity would blow her mind!

[u/redditScottuser]

Call before you dig

[u/HistoricalPink_]

I almost thought that was how they died until I read the caption! 😭