Find Spot record 1160/0/421 - Undated burials found close to the Inner Bailey bank

Skeletons of four men and two horses found during the construction of St Andrews Road in 1883. Probably buried close to the Inner Bailey bank of the castle, but the skeletons were undated with no definite association

{1} A quantity of human bones were discovered on Thursday the 22nd inst., by workmen engaged in excavating for the new road to Castle Station. A trench is being dug some eight or ten feet deep for the for the foundation of the boundary wall, and it was while working in this trench that one of the navvies made the first find by striking his pick through the upper part of a skull. The remaining bones of the skeleton were afterwards got out, and later in the day the remains of three other men were found. The bones of two of them were mixed with the skeletons of two horses, leading to the supposition that they once belonged to two soldiers who were buried in this spot with their steeds. The fourth skull was pierced as if with a spear in two or three places, and one the blows had fractured the bone. The following day portions of two other skeletons were got out, but the other parts being in the bank they were not disturbed.

<1> Northampton Mercury, 31st March 1883 (Newspaper cuttings). SNN110276.

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