A GRIZZLY discovery in a churchyard left police and parishioners fearing the worst.
What looked like a human pelvic bone was unearthed by gardeners at St Michael’s Church in Sheerwater on Thursday. The area was quickly cordoned off by police and the bone was taken away for analysis.
After analysis, it was found to have belonged to a cow that grazed on the green grass of Woking more than 500 years ago.
Detective Sergeant Chris Rambour said a police expert decided that the bone belonged to a medieval cow. The medieval era ended in 1485, meaning the bone is at least 522 years old.
He added: “The bone was removed from under a bush and we always treat such finds as human until proven otherwise.”
The Rev Iain Forbes, minister for Sheerwater and Woodham, said the bone was discovered by a working party provided by the probation service.
He said alarm bells rang when it was unearthed on land outside the Dartmouth Avenue church that is consecrated only for the burial of ashes.
Mr Forbes said: “With the current stories in the news, people got rattled quite understandably.
“We’ve been told there were signs of butchery on the bone."
“We’ve been told there were signs of butchery on the bone."
“It seems that someone was cutting up the cow and saying ‘yum yum, there’s my dinner’ several hundred years ago.”
Mr Rambour added that this was the first time he had dealt with the discovery of a mysterious bone, although they were not uncommon.
The last case, he said, was two weeks ago when people who discovered pig bones in Addlestone also feared the worst.
From: Woking.co.uk
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