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Mystery of the bones of Regent’s Park
• THERE'S a long history of bones turning up in Regent’s Park, (Regent’s Park bones ‘not Blitz victims but overspill from 1840s burial crisis’, July 30).
AD Webster, writing in 1911, said that human remains had been “unearthed in the Park at various times... but in nearly every case their origin can be traced to the soil which had been introduced from some of the London building grounds.
“Several skulls are interred together near the cricket pavilion, the origin of which is well known; while the same may be said of the portions of a coffin and some human bones which were unearthed when an extension of the Zoological Society’s ground took place.”
(The Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill, page 108.)
There is no mention of the Victorian burial crisis in this account, put forward as an explanation by the Museum of London.
JOHN BLACK
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