What is recorded here

Seven skeletons lay shallow beneath Ball Alley, caught between modern cables and forgotten faith. They waited under ordinary traffic, east-west and supine, until broadband trenching broke the quiet. The living had built above them without knowing, but the dead had kept the alley's edge for centuries.

Discovered during test trenching associated with the North East Broadband Project, Phase II (Excavation Licence No. E2335). 'During the course of monitoring at Ball Alley human remains were encountered 0.4m below the street surface along the southern side of the carriageway near the entrance gate to the graveyard. Due to the shallow depth of the burials and the presence of numerous pre-existing services on the northern side of the carriageway, it was not possible to re-route the trench. Subsequent excavation uncovered seven articulated human skeletons and a small quantity of disarticulated bone. All of the burials were extended in a supine position and were orientated east-west in the standard Christian burial manner'. (Delaney 2009, 443) Date of upload: 14 April 2011

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