Kent Home Unearths 1,000-Year-Old Remains, Prompting Re-Interment After 2019 Crime Scare
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 21
Kent Home Unearths 1,000-Year-Old Remains, Prompting Re-Interment After 2019 Crime Scare
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 21
Summary
August brought a formal church re-interment for Anglo-Saxon human remains unearthed during a 2019 kitchen extension at Ross Sledger’s home in Wye, Kent.
About 48 hours after builders found bones, specialists ruled out a modern crime scene; police had initially sent around 10 officers and later uncovered remains from a second body.
The find included a femur, two skulls, ribs, part of a pelvis, and fragments of a humerus and finger bones, with Sledger saying later backyard work turned up more hand remains.
Permission and other red tape delayed the burial process after the remains were passed from investigators to a historical society and then a local vicar.
The case highlights how routine home projects in Britain can unexpectedly expose significant archaeology, from ancient burials to coin hoards later worth more than £380,000.