[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Pretty wild. I'd be scared to dig utility trenches around there.

It reminds me of when I used to live in Virginia. It seemed like every week some hunter or hiker would discover a body and thought it to be a modern-day murder victim. Wrong, it was a body from the Civil War. Happened all the time.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

"Radiocarbon tests will be done to find out more precise dates for the burials but the people are believed to have lived during the building of Stonehenge."

Is radiocarbon dating really accurate?

I thought that the people in VA who found those civil war remains would always have an interesting tale to dine out on.

(I have often dined out on the tale of the bobcat at the memorial park. :)

[Gorzaloon]

Pretty wild. I'd be scared to dig utility trenches around there.

They can be a blessing. A trench was being dug, and fragments of small stone and ceramic tiles were found. Work came screeching to a halt.

The beautiful Roman villa at Fishbourne was found this way. A "Boy on a Dolphin" mosaic floor is in quite good condition, and the hypocaust heating system is in good shape, considering the Romans went home in the 400's.

[Ditter]

I used to live in Yorktown Virginia & I found stuff in my flower beds all the time. Not bodies, of course, but old broken pots, hand blown wine bottles, pieces of cannon balls & the tips of clay pipes by the dozens.

[Agricola]

I have heard of that. I have a faint memory from years ago about the bones and brass buttons, buckles, and such of a British soldier from the revolution found in the woods of New Hampshire. I have heard other stories about Civil War bones found all the time.

I read a book called "The Fall of Berlin" recently. In Germany- they still find at least 1000 bodies among the pine woods of the "Seelow Heights" (the last real defensive line on the outskirts of Berlin).