Ned Kelly's hideout found  

Posted by Feral Beast in ,

NED IS FINALLY FOUND!!! It's been two years and we've Finally found him!!!surprised

Ned's last resting place has been found. Ned Kelly's body was in a mass grave at Pentridge prison site in Victoria. For 80 years he's been missing and now we've found him. The grave site of Australia's most famous bushranger was discovered after archaeologists unearthed a Department of Justice document which had a clue to where he was buried.mrgreen

Archaeologists from Heritage Victoria during the last week finally found the mass grave where he was buried. They have also found other executed prisoners in the same pit; removed from the old Melbourne prison in 1929 they were then buried in the Pentridge prison complex.eek

Bones from the mass grave, thought to be from five different prisoners, have been sent to the Victorian Insitute of Forensic Medicine at Southbank.surprised

We need to take greater care of our history, even though we are a young country we still have to protect all of our history or we will lose it forever, because a lot of our history has been lost that way and if we do lose it we'll never get it back, and if we don't get it back then the next generation of people will never know what it was like in that time.cry

That's why we need to protect our history forever or else, say, great, great great, great, great, great grandchildren may never know who Ned Kelly was, who Henry Lawson was, Banjo Paterson was, who Daisy Bates was, what the rainbow snake was, etc, the point is that if we don't protect and collect things today we wont have them tomorrow.cool

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5 comments

How did they know it was him? Must have been the bucket on his head that gave it away.

March 10, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Anonymous  

Do you know what the clue was?

March 11, 2008 at 8:06 AM
Anonymous  

Wow, what a scoop. Great post! I missed this in the news. After mislaying his resting place for so long this sounds like Ned may get a dignified burial after all.

You are absolutely right. Our history does need protection. I don't think the government of Ned's day would have imagined that he would still be famous in the 21st Century!

March 11, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Anonymous  

P.S Thanks for the link. :)

March 11, 2008 at 12:40 PM

LOL to Brian.

No I don't exactly, Irish Lad, but it was probably a list of names for that mass grave.

I think Ned will get a dignified burial.(it's way better than ending up in a unmarked mass grave like he did 80 years back.)

Nether do I LID.Your welcome LID.

Thanks every one.

March 11, 2008 at 4:53 PM

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