Thanks Darks.
Let’s hope they are given more respect than the bodies uncovered at other digs.
Your very own cardboard box and piece of shelf space....nice.
Maybe they’ll find a rousing ghost shindig going on.
That would be typical of sailors.
“Hey, we got beach front views and these chaps are spoiling it! I know, party!”
In the 18th Century, victims of shipwrecks were usually stripped of clothing and valuables and left to rot, sometimes while still alive. If these sailors were buried, there must have been some soldiers stationed nearby. Officers, when they could be recognized, frequently escaped this fate, as their families would pay to recover their remains.