Dunraven Bay: Ancient bones could be thousands of years old

Human bones found after the collapse of an ancient wall "could be thousands of years old", a historian has said.

The remains emerged near Dunraven Bay, in Southerndown, Vale of Glamorgan, on 9 April and have been sent for carbon dating.

Graham Loveluck-Edwards said the soil in the area is a good at preserving bones for a long time.

The three most likely explanations, he said, are prehistoric cave burials, a massacre in the area during the 1st Century, or the remains of dead from shipwrecks along the coast from the 16th to 18th Centuries.

Video filmed and edited by Greg Davies, BBC News

18 April 2024