Green Point dig stopped after remains found
By Jason Warner
The construction of much-needed parking bays in Green Point has been delayed after workers made the macabre discovery of human remains.
Contract workers employed by Civils 2000, a construction company focusing on site clearing, demolition and road works, were digging trenches on Wednesday along busy Somerset Road, near Liddle and Cobern streets, which bisect Somerset Road and Prestwich Street in Green Point, when they stumbled upon part of a human skull and jaw, and leg bones.
Company director Rob Starke said: "We were excavating test holes, searching for existing municipal services, to enable us to place the new parking bays alongside Somerset Road.
The labourers were excavating a trench when the supervisor noticed some odd-looking bits in the excavated material.
"She stopped the work, scratched in the soil pile and found a bit of what she thought could be a bone."
The manager notified Heritage Western Cape, a provincial authority charged with identifying, protecting and conserving the Cape's heritage resources.
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