Bunker Hill site eyed as possible Colonial graves

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Source: AP/Boston.com

BOSTON—A peaceful garden on land that was once part of the sprawling Bunker Hill battlefield is being eyed as the possible site of a previously unknown makeshift grave for dozens of Colonial-era British soldiers.

A Charlestown historian and a curator for Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia say research into Revolutionary War troop movements and after-battle burials suggest the site may once have been a ditch where scores of Redcoats were killed and buried in the fighting.

Today, however, it features a row of gardens amid a stately neighborhood.

Some landowners and neighbors say they worry any attempts to dig up the site would disrupt their lives and serve little purpose to those who may have died there 234 years ago.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/08/bunker_hill_site_eyed_as_possible_colonial_graves/

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