00:05Back in 2019 the small village of Wye was turned upside down when one local couple discovered
00:10human bones underneath their back garden. Fast forward seven years and one pandemic,
00:15we now know the bones are ancient Anglo-Saxon remains and are being buried in a ceremony at
00:20Wye's churchyard. We know that they're ancient remains and it's important that they are laid to
00:26rest, or relayed to rest correctly. The whole process just got a bit delayed because this
00:33happened just before lockdown so this is why it's taken so long to do but now we've done it.
00:41I think it's fair to say that aside from the weather today went off without a hitch. It's taken
00:46seven years for these two bodies to be read their last rites properly and while today might have been
00:51a shorter service it's fair to say that the actual finding of the two bodies was a bit more of
00:56a
00:56dramatic discovery especially here in a small village like Wye. Well our builder was also
01:01doing our foundations for our extension and I was at work and he rang me up and said uh found
01:08some
01:08bones and said oh right was it a pet or something and it's someone's pet that's what I assumed he
01:13said uh no uh I mean what's going on and that's when I sent you the photo of the our
01:20builder had found
01:21several different bones but it was when he found an actual femur um which you could tell it was a
01:28human human femur. And uh yeah I came back and there was a policeman waiting on the doorstep going okay
01:33we need to investigate this uh and that's went from then then uh next day one policeman another one and
01:40then another one another one. And it wasn't just Ross and Claire who were interested in knowing more
01:44about the ancient remains with Wye's local history society also in attendance. Bones have been found on the
01:50Boats Hill site over many years and in the 1930s when the present row of houses were built a number
01:58of skeletons were found one of which was in the stone cyst if you know this is a grave which
02:05is
02:06is lined by stones. While Wye is a small village its history is far larger with buildings in the town
02:13having been commissioned by archbishops and vicars dating back to 1171 when they would have been burying
02:19bones that are now as ancient as the ones buried in 2026. Finn McDermid for KMTV in Wye
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