Tree removal at North Carolina church unearths centuries-old artifacts
CNN
On June 20, a plethora of centuries-old items were found in the yard of Christ Episcopal Church in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Some are believed to date back as far as the early 1700s.
When not leading sermons, the Rev. Daniel Cenci is quite the history buff. Cenci’s two passions coincided when a plethora of centuries-old items were found June 20 in the yard of Christ Episcopal Church in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where Cenci has served as rector since 2019. He said the church’s construction crew was digging up a century-old magnolia tree when the mundane quickly turned into something extraordinary around lunchtime. The crew had hit something while digging up a pit for drainage underneath the stump. When Cenci saw the almost dome-like shape of the structure the crew had hit, he thought it was a crypt or an unmarked soldier’s grave given the many battles fought in eastern North Carolina during the Civil War. Cenci enlisted the help of a nearby parishioner to poke around. Soon, the two had pulled out a bone that was eight inches long. “I thought, ‘Oh gosh, maybe that’s a crypt after all,’” Cenci told CNN.
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