burying ground

Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of archaeology, said rectangular patterns of soil discoloration show the location of the burials in what is almost certainly the church’s old burying ground.

Archaeologists think Sutton Hoo was also a burying ground for the royal’s relatives, who were laid to rest in about 17 other mounds near the presumed king.

At the burying ground, there were many new graves.

This Old Dutch Church’s burying ground harbors gravediggers and graverobbers alike.

Investigators eventually removed the remains of 27 people — five men, eight women and 14 children — from 28 graves in what scholars discovered was an old burying ground called the Walton Family Cemetery.