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  • Three skeletons found under 18th-century Ridgefield house

    12/21/2019 11:35:08 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 37 replies
    Wilton Bulletin ^ | Thursday, December 12, 2019 | Stephen Coulter
    Human skeletal remains -- possibly belonging to Revolutionary War soldiers who fought in the Battle of Ridgefield in 1777 -- were discovered under the foundation of an early 18th-century house last week. The Connecticut Office of State Archaeology was notified by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner about the find on Dec. 2. Subsequent excavations by the state archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni, with assistance from the Friends of the Office of State Archaeology, Inc. and University of Connecticut graduate students, have yielded two more skeletons. "One has been completely excavated already and is in the medical examiner's office and we're...