What is the legality for when “Grave Digging” is classified as “Archaeology”?
Time Team dug at an abby and found the remains of a nun. She was later reburied in an active cemetery. Digging up cemeteries has been going on for centuries. In the 18th century Paris, cemeteries were overfilled and rotting bodies became a health hazard. Those withing the city limits were closed, the bones dug up and placed in what were stone quarries. Some 6,000,000 bodies were moved by the 19th century. One time team show set at Glendon Hall in Northamptonshire, involved a graveyard found near the medieval church of St Helen. This church was closed and torn down about 1514. The graves were found during the expansion of a house. Here you have a common problem. Graves in the way of construction, worse there is no record of the graves. In most cases the bodies are removed and re-buried. There are a number of codes that govern the operation and closing of cemeteries. While people pay for “perpetual care” many cemeteries go broke and are abandoned. Once that happens the graves may be move
