Age: unknown
Sex: male
Date: 27 Dec 1957
Place: 69 Royal Mint Square, Whitechapel, London
Human bones were discovered during the reconstruction of a house at 69 Royal Mint Square, E1, London in a hidden pit or well below the floorboards of a ground floor flat.
A total of fifteen skulls were found and it was thought that they had been in the pit since the erection of Royal Mint Square in the 1880s and that thy were at least 100 years old and probably older.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - MEPO 2/9823
see National Library of Scotland
see Unsolved 1957