A human skeleton was accidentally \ discovered by a young girl named 1 i Mary Anne Sutcliffe, the daughter of a | settler at Mount Pleasant, on thefPort Chalmers and Dunedin road. It is ! evident the bones have lain /for years in the spot where the littl&girl found them. The appearance ofywie backbone was very remarkable, .-.tine roots of a, creeping plant having'run Hbrough tne/ cavity which in life was occupied py the spinal cord, and. increased in ..strength and growth, and so firmly was the bone kept together by the roots that Sergeant Neil was compelled to cut them apart before the pieces could be lifted from the. ground.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 238, 21 September 1875, Page 2
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