Medieval History
Eight skeletons have been found in a Worcestershire village where flood defences are being built.
About 12 graves were found in Kempsey by the Environment Agency when they were digging trial trenches as part of an archaeological excavation.
The skeletons, thought to be medieval, are being exhumed and the remains will be recorded before they are reburied.
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Medieval History
'Medieval' skeletons found in Kempsey flood defence work
Eight skeletons have been found in a Worcestershire village where flood defences are being built.
About 12 graves were found in Kempsey by the Environment Agency when they were digging trial trenches as part of an archaeological excavation.
The skeletons, thought to be medieval, are being exhumed and the remains will be recorded before they are reburied.
Click here to read this article from the BBC
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Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John?s College in Oxford may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford University researchers studying the remains. When the bodies were discovered in the grounds of...
- 18 Medieval Skeletons To Be Reburied After Discovery During Town Centre Revamp
Eighteen medieval skeletons unearthed during a £1.8 million revamp of a town centre are to be reburied. The remains were found in Bridge Street and Silver Street in Gainsborough during renovation works last summer by contractors working for West Lindsey...
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Twelve skeletons have been found under the car park at a Bicester (Oxfordshire) church. The bones were found by builders who are midway through constructing the John Paul II Centre in the grounds of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in the Causeway....
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Medieval skeletons have been uncovered during the first stage of £200,000 building work to revamp a church in Chickerell. Archaeologists were called in when the remains of two children, thought to be from as early as the 13th century, were found close...
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The remains of two people were discovered by workers in Gloucester, England who were digging up a road near the city centre. Gloucestershire County Council's archaeology service has examined the bones, which were laid side by side in the ground, and...