Push to find resting places for remains found in desecrated graves

Push to find resting places for remains found in desecrated graves

Nine piles of dirt containing up to 5,000 human remains from dug-up graves have been dumped at the rear of a regional Victorian cemetery. A team of archaeologists is helping to find a home for the disturbed remains.

Thousands of human remains from desecrated graves in Castlemaine could finally find resting place

By Nate Woodall When Sally Eaton visited a cemetery in Castlemaine looking for the resting place of her ancestor, it was easy enough to find his name. The headstone for James Monks, an Irish convict who settled in the central Goldfields region before he died in 1862, sits along the dirt road running through the cemetery. “It was a big moment for me because he was one of the first ancestors to come to Australia in my family tree,” Ms Eaton said.…