According to legend this was the work of one monk after the bones were disinterred and moved from their original burial ground to the new church. |
In fact, the body gets buried and disinterred, and reburied and almost buried, quite a few times. |
People buried more than 100 years ago could be disinterred and then re-interred deeper underground, leaving fresh land above for new graves. |
Human remains regularly have to be disinterred from old burial grounds scheduled for development. |
In an awful silence he disinterred a little lead figure of a man in black clothes. |
He has disinterred thousands of bodies from sites where they were buried by the army. |