Overview

• Tourists discovered a skull and scattered bones on Friday at a beachfront property in the Jeremy Cay community near Legare Road.
• Visiters initially thought they had unearthed fossils before realizing the fragments were human remains.
• Colleton County deputies, the Edisto Beach Police Department and the coroner’s office secured the scene and coordinated the recovery.
• The site corresponds to Edingsville Beach, a once-fashionable summer settlement founded in 1825 and later destroyed by coastal erosion and 19th-century hurricanes.
• Officials estimate the remains date back about 200 years and are working with multiple agencies to confirm their age and identify the individual.