Excavation work at a site in Ardrossan Cemetery, thought to be a mass grave of bodies from the HMS Dasher disaster, has ended in disappointment.
The archaeology team, led by John Atkinson, hoped to find evidence of a grave site but instead found undisturbed virgin soil.
HMS Dasher blew up off Arran in March 1943, killing 379 people, but only 23 bodies are in marked graves. The others have never been accounted for.
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