Smithsonian expert says bones found on Q Street likely belonged to an adult male, aged approximately 35 years.
During routine construction to dig a driveway last week, contractors accidentally discovered a human skeleton buried about five feet below the foundation of a Georgetown home on the 3300 block of Q Street, NW. Dr. David Hunt, a museum specialist in physical anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, told Patch that the bones were "obviously historic in nature." The mostly-deteriorated wooden coffin, the rust and corrosion on nails found near the body and the initial evaluation of the state of the bones, suggest the individual had been buried for possibly 150 years, he explained. Though Hunt had not been able to perform a full biological profile on the bones to …
Bones found on Q Street last week likely belonged to an adult male, aged approximately 35 years.
During routine construction last week, contractors accidentally discovered human remains buried four or five feet below the foundation of a Georgetown home. An expert from the Smithsonian Institution told Patch in an interview that the discovery was not forensic, i.e. related to a crime, but rather the bones were "obviously historic in nature." The remains of a wooden coffin and an intact skeleton were found during construction on the home at 3333 Q St., NW. The contractors were digging a grade for a driveway between 3333 and 3329 Q St., NW when their equipment struck the skull of the skeleton. Contractors then notified police when they realized the bones were likely human. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Georgetown Patch by…
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Cortney
6:09 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012
My boyfriend is the one who dug into him. They found more bodies since then. Creepy. more ›