Radar May Help Identify Jamestown Skeleton

The Church of England has agreed to allow researchers using radar to look beneath two churches for remains that could determine whether a skeleton found at the Jamestown settlement in Virginia is that of one of the colony’s founders, scientists said Monday.

Scientists who excavated the site of a 400-year-old fort at Jamestown want to know if the skeleton discovered in 2003 is that of Bartholomew Gosnold, captain of one of the three ships that carried settlers from England. To do so, they need to conduct a DNA analysis on the remains of Gosnold’s sister and niece, who are believed to be buried in two churches in Suffolk, England.