Pilgrim Sarcophagus

USA / Massachusetts / Plymouth /
 monument, grave
The Pilgrim Sarcophagus within which have been deposited the bones of the Pilgrims who died the first winter, which have been found at various times that were washed out of the hillside by rainstorms before streets were paved, in or near Cole's Hill. Erected by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants in 1920. A part of the inscription reads: The Monument marks the First Burying Ground in Plymouth of the passengers of the Mayflower. Here under cover of darkness the fast dwindling company laid their dead, leveling the earth above them lest the Indians should know how many were the graves.


www.pilgrimhall.org/PSNote1.htm
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Coordinates:   41°57'26"N   70°39'44"W

Comments

  • Technically it should be called the "Pilgrim Ossuary", since it is a mass grave of skeletal remains collected hundreds of years after their burial. Sarcophagus implies an individual tomb.
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