MORE than 100 skeletons have now been discovered at the old media college site in Gloucester.
Back in July, The Citizen reported that nine skeletons had been found on the site off Brunswick Road during work on a £25million development which will include 176 apartments, 78 houses.
Then at the start of August it emerged that more than 40 skeletons had been dug up from a Roman cemetery.
Now, 105 skeletons have been found with a few more expected to be dug up over the coming weeks.
Site manager Stuart Joyce, from Cotswold Archaeology, admitted more skeletons had been discovered than they expected.
He said: "We knew we were going to find some skeletons here, but there have been more than we anticipated.
"We have had finds of all ages, from babies to people in their 40s and 50s.
"They have been preserved remarkably well considering they have been in the ground for 1,600 years."
Whole skeletons, including all of their teeth, have been pulled out of the ground on an almost daily basis over the past two months.
Some were complete with injuries which may well have been the cause of their deaths.
"We have had all sorts; broken arms and legs," added Mr Joyce.
"One skeleton we found the other day had clearly broken his femur and the bone had slipped four to five inches, which he would have lost in height on that one side.
"However, the bone had healed and fused back together like that, so he must have lived that way for some time before his death."
The skeletons are taken out of the ground, then passed on to an expert who determines their age and sex. They are then passed to Gloucester Museum.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Linden Homes said: "Linden's programme for the development of the Greyfriars site was put together in the full knowledge of the potential to uncover archaeological remains."
