A curator from Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia has collaborated with a Charlestown historian to determine the site where one or two dozen British soldiers were buried. They wish to use ground-penetrating radar to inspect a number of sites stretching down Concord Street from Monument Square. Families living over the sites, however, are conflicted about the discovery, and the possible problems further research will create for them.

You can read more details in the Boston Globe at www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/08/bunker_hill_dead_may_lie_under_gardens/?s_campaign=8315.