Saturday 24 September 1927 – Body found at Frances’ Grave

Excavations necessitated for the widening of a road and laying of a culvert at Frances’ Grave Corner in Badsey on Monday, revealed a human skeleton in the centre of the Badsey, Willersey and Wickhamford crossroads.  One of the men employed by Evesham Rural District Council found a bone when using his pick and sent for the antiquarian Mr A E Jones, who cut away the clay soil and found a skeleton almost complete.  The skeleton was found to be that of a woman and believed to be two to three hundred years old.