of the riverbed at low tide, he discovered a human bone. when the police carbon dated it, it turned out to be more than 5,000 years old. well simon huntjoins me now, and he happens to be a bbc colleague. i know you ve got this phone with you, we have got to see it. show us what it looks like. you, we have got to see it. show us what it looks like. wow, i what it looks like. here are. wow, it s a very what it looks like. here are. wow, it s a very dark what it looks like. here are. wow, it s a very dark in what it looks like. here are. wow, it s a very dark in colour. - what it looks like. here are. wow, it s a very dark in colour. when - what it looks like. here are. wow, it s a very dark in colour. when he| it s a very dark in colour. when he found it, what we are immediate thoughts? found it, what we are immediate thou~hts? ~ , , thoughts? well, i ust put the boat in the water. thoughts? well, i ust put the boat in the water, it thoughts? well, i ust put the boat in the
do stay with us if you can t in the hours ahead. you re watching bbc news. as he went out for a row one morning on the river thames in london, graphic designer, simon hunt came across a rather unexpected find. lying on the pebbles and rocks of the riverbed at low tide, he discovered a human bone. when the police carbon dated it, it turned out to be more than 5,000 years old. earlier, i spoke to simon hunt, who is also a bbc colleague. he started by showing me the bone. here we are. wow, it s a very darkened colour. when you found it, what were your immediate thoughts? well, ijust put the boat in the water, it is quite low tide and the water is very clear. i could see this object on the river, probably about a foot underneath the water, and my initial thought was,
sinister or criminal. so, yeah, phoned the police, which was sort of amusing because they weren t quite sure what to do originally either. they weren t sure what forms to fill in or who to contact, but eventually they sent two officers around in the afternoon who were very excited when they saw it, recognised that it was a human bone. but by this time, the tide has come in. they asked me to show them exactly where i had found it, and i couldn t because it was about 20 feet underwater, so they filled a few forms in and took it away, and the following day, a detective came to the house and she interviewed me, took a full statement and said they would send it away to be carbon dated. and it s turned out to be a lot older than even you thought. how old did you think it was and how old is it? i wasn t too sure. when she phoned me up, she said, ok, it s really old.
as he went out for a row one morning on the river thames in london, graphic designer simon hunt came across a rather unexpected find. lying on the pebbles and rocks of the riverbed at low tide, he discovered a human bone. when the police carbon dated it, it turned out to be more than 5,000 years old. earlier my colleague martine croxall spoke to simon hunt about how he found the bone. well, ijust put the boat in the water, it is quite low tide and the water is very clear. i could see this object on the river, probably about a foot underneath the water, and my initial thought was, i recognised as a bone but kind of assumed it might be an animal bone, and i was rowing with friends of mine, and ijust thought it would be quite funny to pick out of the water and go, oh, ifound a bone, ifound a bone! when i picked up out of the water, i was kind of staring at this, which i recognised as a hipjoint, and then i thought, that can t be. i can t think of an animal
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