Riddle's Bones

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 125388


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miikka R." <ryokas at h...> wrote:
> 
> > Chancie: 
> >  
> > I also wanted to add, that Voldemort's father was killed only 50 
> years
> > ago.  Archeologists are able to exhume the bones of mummy's and 
> even
> > dinosaurs, which are considerably older than 50 years ago.  

- Kizor
> To be needlessly pedantic (after all, I *am* a member here), bones 
do
> not last that long in the usual enviroments. Dinosaur bones and the
> like only last any amount of damage if they mineralize (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossils ) and human remains need to be
> specifically preserved ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy ).

Geoff:
It depends on what you mean by the "usual environments".

In my area of Somerset, there has been great excitement in just the 
past week because, in the county town of Taunton, builders working on 
a new site discovered the foundations of the old Priory, which was 
destroyed ij the time of Henry VIII (ie in the 1530s or 1540s) and 
also found several well-preserved skeletons dating from the period.