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Archaeology project planning to find and exhume unmarked graves

08:53 am on 16 November 2020

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An archaeology project to find and exhume unmarked graves at a Central Otago cemetery begins today.

The delicate University of Otago task at the 150-year-old Drybread Cemetery, near Omakau, will take about a month.

The cemetery was established in the early 1860s during a gold-rush but faded away about 30 years later as the diggers moved on.

Project co-leader, professor Hallie Buckley, speaks to Corin Dann.