Reports: Workers Find Human Skull

A backhoe operator excavating for utility system upgrades made an eye-popping discovery last week when he apparently uncovered a skull and eight other human bones.

The remains were discovered Aug. 14 at McCants Drive and Simmons Street in Mount Pleasant's Old Village, according to a police report. The contractor was digging roughly six feet below ground next to a cemetery when he unearthed a skull and three other bones. The remains were likely from an unmarked grave.

Work stopped immediately, a police incident report states, and police were called. Officers allowed the crew to continue to digging for water system upgrades. They eventually found five additional bones.

The officer wrote that the bones were immediately noticeable as human remains. The Charleston County Coroner took possession of the remains.

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