Workmen excavating near the site of the old Tyburn Tree at Marble Arch at a depth of about eight feet, turned up eight skulls and_a heap of human bones.
When a "Daily News" man inquired there he was shown the bones lying under a sack by the watchman's hut. The workmen are laying a 36-inch main for the Metropolitan Water Board, and the spot where the bones were found is about 20 feet north of the stone tablet marking the site of the old Tyburn_ gallows.
Are the bones of Oliver Crom well in that heap lying under the sack? It is possible. Pepys says that on Jan. 30, 1661, the anniversary of the execution of Charles I. twelve years before, "the carcases of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw were drawn upon a sledge to Tyburn, and then taken out of their coffin, and in their shrouds hanged by the neck until the going down of the sun.
"They were then cut down and their bodies buried in a grave under the gallows."
Still, thousands of people were hanged at Tyburn, and almost all of them were buried around the gallows site, "according to
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