GRIM RELICS FOUND
A visit was oaid ny Mr E. Joke, of Britain’s Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments, to an excavation made for air-raid shelters at Castle Farm, East Tilbury, near London, where six skeletons and some ancient brickwork were discovered by workmen. The skeletons are believed to be the remains of victims of a cholera epidemic which broke out in the district about 150 years ago. The brickwork was probably the foundations of a seventeenth century house.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20071, 18 October 1939, Page 10
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78GRIM RELICS FOUND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20071, 18 October 1939, Page 10
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