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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND—According to a report in BBC News, nine burials were discovered during construction work at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, which is located in the Royal Pavilion Estate. The burials are thought to have been part of a Quaker cemetery that occupied the site before the Royal Pavilion Estate was first built as a seaside retreat for the Prince of Wales in the late eighteenth century. “The best clue as to when worship and burial ceased is when the Quaker meeting house moved to the current location on Meeting House Lane in 1805,” explained Darryl Palmer of Archaeology South-East. The remains will be exhumed and studied. To read in-depth about the bioarchaeology of early modern England go to "Haunt of the Resurrection Man."
