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A Wicked Noah's Ark: Exercise Magwitch, Rat Island 2017
Rob Bennett
Christopher Daniell
N Marquez-Grant
R Osgood
The storms of 2014 exposed human remains at Burrow Island (known locally as Rat Island) between Gosport and Portsmouth in Southern England. A team of forensics specialists from Cranfield Forensics Institute, Professional Archaeologists from the Ministry of Defence, and volunteers on 'Operation Nightingale' undertook excavation work to recover these burials. This document highlights the results
2017
Burrow Island (Rat Island) Excavations 2019
Christopher Daniell
R Osgood
Richard Bennett
N Marquez-Grant
The 2019 season of recovery of human remains from the cliff face on Burrow Island (Rat Island) following winter erosion, Undertaken by Op Nightingale veterans, archaeologists and Royal Military Police This was not collected in OASIS IV when this record was originally createdFurther erosion at Burrow Island (known as Rat Island) – an MOD asset between Gosport and Portsmouth on the south coast of England – resulted in additional human remains being eroded from a cliff that had already been examined in 2014 and 2017. A team undertook recovery work in March 2019 to retrieve these remains and bones from a minimum number of seven adults and one infant (0-1 years of age) were found. These displayed various pathological traits. The finding of two bones of an infant was unusual; the first occasion that this project team has encountered remains of such a young individual. If the human remains represent burials of those who died upon the prison hulks of the 18th and 19th centuries (as most documentary sources seem to point towards), then this raises interesting questions about the incarcerated demographic
2019
Exercise Magwitch: Excavation at Burrow Island (Rat Island) 2020
Errickson David
Christopher Daniell
R Osgood
Richard Bennett
Rescue work on human remains eroding from cliff edge of the tidal island of Burrow Island A series of burials were excavated from the eroding (eastern) cliff of Burrow Island between Gosport and Portsmouth. Although the majority were adult males - at least one baby was identified. A programme of radiocarbon dating (illustrating a Georgian date range of mid 18th C to early 19th C) was undertaken, with a study of stable isotopes illustrating an origin of southern Britain (and possibly N Euro mainland).
2022
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