AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - English couple's kitchen renovation turns up 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon bones — and a police investigation
A homeowner in southeastern England got more than he bargained for when a builder working on a kitchen addition unearthed human remains that turned the backyard into a crime scene, only for specialists to confirm the bones were roughly a thousand years old. Ross Sledger, 49, was at work in the spring of 2019 when […] The post English couple's kitchen renovation turns up 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon bones — and a police investigation appeared first on American Almanac .
A homeowner in southeastern England got more than he bargained for when a builder working on a kitchen addition unearthed human remains that turned the backyard into a crime scene, only for specialists to confirm the bones were roughly a thousand years old. Ross Sledger, 49, was at work in the spring of 2019 when the builder adding a kitchen extension to his home in Wye, Kent, called with news no homeowner wants to hear. Fox News Digital reported that the builder told Sledger he had found bones in the ground, and he was not joking. Sledger's first instinct was to shrug it off. Rural properties in England sit on centuries of agricultural use, and animal bones turn up regularly. But the builder made clear this was something different. …Open