HUMAN remains unearthed last week by contractors working on the Clerke Street car park site next to the Flying Shuttle pub in Bury, will be re-interred by Bury Social Services. According to a police spokesman there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the discovery of what in fact was a skeleton.
Police have confirmed that the car park where the remains were excavated is the site of the former Bethel Congregational Chapel and Sunday School.
The bones were only discovered later by a truck driver who was tipping spoil from the Bury site in Pretty Wood, Rochdale.
The remains - which are being held at the Fairfield Hospital Mortuary, are believed to have been laid to rest before the Second World War.
The only mystery still remaining is the sex and name of the deceased.
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