VICTIMS OF THE GREAT PLAGUE.
A unmber of human skeletons, including skulls and other bones, have been unearthed during excavations in a meadow air Chertsey. Most of the bones were within a couple offeet of the surface, and were found in all postures. indiezfting hasty burial. The most feasible theories are that they belonged to persons who died in the Great I’laglle—h=_:villg been brought from London in b-.u'Tg,‘es—or to victims of the sholeru scourge which affecte-d Chertscy between 1830 and 1840.
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Taihape Daily Times, 20 August 1919, Page 2
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81VICTIMS OF THE GREAT PLAGUE. Taihape Daily Times, 20 August 1919, Page 2
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