CHATHAM, Mass. — A Cape Cod museum dedicated to local history says workers clearing leaves on its property found a human skull that is believed to be more than 100 years old.
The Cape Cod Times reports the skull was discovered last week at Atwood House Museum in Chatham.
Danielle Jeanloz, executive director of the Chatham Historical Society, says police told them the skull was so old, they didn't consider the property a crime scene.
The museum is in a house that was built in the early 1750s and sits on a 30-acre lot. Eight generations of Atwoods lived there. Jeanloz says it was not uncommon at the time for burial grounds to be on family property.
A spokesman for the chief medical examiner's office says its anthropologist is examining the skull.
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