5 June 2015

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TESTS on the bone which was dug up in the High Street yesterday afternoon by workmen for South East Water have shown it is not human in origin.

A police pathology report confirmed this morning that the remains are from an animal, and work has now recommenced on the large hole being dug outside outside Broadleys for the installation of a district water meter.

The discovery of the bone prompted speculation that it might be a relic of Thomas Dunngate, Anne Tree and John Forman, the three East Grinstead martyrs who were burned on the same spot for their adherence to the Protestant faith in 1556.

Coincidentally the Town Council is to place a plaque remembering the three martyrs on the site later this summer.

They are also remembered with three stone memorial stones – not gravestones – outside St Swithun’s.