THE remains of eight adults and five children have been reburied at an Oxford church.
A service at St Clement’s Church, in Marston Road, on Saturday saw the remains – including those of a four-week-old baby – returned to the earth after they were dug up during work at The Plain roundabout in 2007. The remains, which date back to the 1730s, have been examined by Oxford Archaeology experts. The reburial ceremony was designed to mark the 60th anniversary of the reburial of 50 bodies exhumed during road works in the 1940s.
The Rev Bruce Gillingham led the service, which included an extract from John Donne’s poem No Man is an Island. The congregation then walked in procession to the graveyard, where one coffin containing all the remains was buried.
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