See the Mysterious Medieval Porpoise Bones Found by Archaeologists
Philip de Jersey really doesn't know why medieval porpoise bones were found in a grave that looks like it was dug for a human being.
"I've never seen anything that parallels it," he said.
De Jersey is the state archaeologist for the Guernsey Museum and Galleries. For the past three weeks, the museum's field archaeology crew has been conducting excavations at the site of a Medieval monastic retreat at Chapelle Dom Hue in the southwestern portion of Guernsey, an island that sits between England and France.
Beginning on August 29, de Jersey began posting daily video updates of his finds from the field. At first the dig yielded little more than sediment.
Then came day 11.
"In 35 years of digging, it's one of the
