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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Two unnamed men passing through Long Denton churchyard noticed bees emerging from the ground and, out of curiosity, dug with a spade, uncovering an unmarked coffin that crumbled to dust and a human skull filled with honeycomb where the bees had made their hive.
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A few days ago as two men were passing through Long Denton churchyard they observed some bees rising out of the ground, and having a spade with them, one of them, merely out of curiosity, struck the spade into the ground, and finding the bees come out thicker the deeper he dug he continued digging until he unexpectedly came to a coffin (there being no similitude on the spot of any grave) which one of them struck with the spade, and immediately mouldered into dust: They then observed a lump of honey comb, which one of them snatched up, and in breaking the same found a human skull in the cavity of which the bees had made the honey.
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Long Denton Churchyard
Event Date
A Few Days Ago
Outcome
discovery of an old, unmarked coffin that crumbled to dust and a human skull containing honeycomb.
Event Details
Two men observed bees rising from the ground in Long Denton churchyard and dug curiously with a spade, uncovering an unexpected coffin with no visible grave markers. The coffin mouldered into dust upon being struck, revealing a lump of honeycomb inside which contained a human skull where the bees had made their hive.