Overview

• South Yorkshire Police confirmed the bones are human, date back a number of decades, and are not being treated as suspicious.
• Contractors uncovered a black plastic bag of remains on October 6 while clearing overgrowth to install a wooden fence at St Wilfrid’s Church in Cantley, Doncaster.
• Officers established a cordon and carried out searches and forensic work at the scene, with enquiries continuing.
• Workers said the find was roughly three metres from the nearest grave near a stone wall by the churchyard.
• Police plan to work with the church to ensure a respectful reburial once enquiries conclude, while an unverified local account suggests the bag may relate to work at the site in the 1980s.