{"id":343397,"date":"2026-03-23T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343397\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:54:15","slug":"human-remains-300-400-years-old-found-in-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343397\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains 300-400 years old found in backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human remains found in a garden on Wellington&#8217;s south coast are centuries old, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ understands an \u014cwhiro Bay homeowner was gardening when they made the\u00a0discovery in June last year.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, police said the resident was under no suspicion and a forensic anthropologist and pathologist determined the remains were human.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, detective constable Sarah Steed said radiocarbon dating showed the remains were possibly pre-European from the 1600s-1700s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This information will now be supplied to the Coroner for consideration,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consultation will take place with local iwi to arrange a suitable burial site, once the remains are release by the Coroner.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains found in a garden on Wellington&#8217;s south coast are centuries old, according to police. RNZ understands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-343397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}