Scientists row over Gosnold claim (UK, US)
Source: BBC News (3-22-06)

US experts claim that bones alleged to belong to a founder of the country
are authentic and a skeleton buried in the UK, thought to be his sister,
is not.

The archaeologists in Virginia are arguing with UK experts over American
founding father Bartholomew Gosnold, born in Grundisburgh, Suffolk.



DNA tests revealed a skeleton buried in Suffolk is not related to the US
bones.

US experts claim they have the real Gosnold while UK scientists believe
the Suffolk skeleton is authentic.

The British experts believe the body buried at Shelley, Suffolk, is
Gosnold's sister, buried in the 1600s, and are casting doubts on the
American find.

Bartholomew Gosnold is said to have founded the first English-speaking
American colony in Virginia in 1607.



Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006



Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President
Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial
1250 Red Hill Road
Brookneal, Virginia 24528
www.redhill.org
Phone 434-376-2044 or 800-514-7463

Fax 434-376-2647

- M. Lynn Davis, Office Manager
- Karen Gorham-Smith, Associate Curator
- Edith Poindexter, Curator

To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions
at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html