Carbon dating is underway after road workers found human remains in RM of Wallace-Woodworth, Man., police said.
Last Wednesday, crews found two pieces of a human skull and a bone on Road 57 North while cleaning ditches in the aftermath of recent flooding, according to a news release from the Manitoba RCMP. It says at that point, work stopped and the police were called.
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Officers with the Virden RCMP received a report from the crew around 2:15 p.m. on Aug. 26 and established a perimeter around the area where the remains were found, just east of Road 148 West, police said.
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The next morning, a forensic anthropologist and her team were called to the site. They found a partial skull, right shin bone and lower left femur, the RCMP said. The Manitoba Historic Resources Branch also searched the area.
“The remains are consistent with those of a historical or archaeological nature,” police added, noting that carbon dating and testing is being arranged for some of the remains.
more KFC fake chug bones? Just like at the brady road ceremonial burrial grounds?
Watch the ATN claim them even though it maybe a White settler, nomad worker, soldier, etc.