{"id":471245,"date":"2025-10-03T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:09:11","slug":"tuam-personal-items-found-during-mass-burial-site-excavation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471245\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuam: Personal items found during mass burial site excavation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its first update, published around a month ago, ODAIT said it had found shoes, spectacles and baby glass bottles from the years the institution was operating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new report covers ODAIT&#8217;s work for the month up to the 24 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It says the team recovered further personal and medicinal items from what is categorised as the &#8220;institutional era&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Excavators also found a window frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have uncovered a pathway, two drains, and what they describe as an &#8220;underground vaulted structure&#8221; comprised of at least three chambers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is not the same structure where the remains were found in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ODAIT has previously indicated it does not expect to find children&#8217;s remains until a later stage in the excavation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its first update, published around a month ago, ODAIT said it had found shoes, spectacles and baby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-471245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115310635564441130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}