Archeologists hunting for relics from the Revolutionary War discovered human remains in a Bronx park Friday, cops said.
A skeletal human leg was discovered in a wooded stretch of Van Cortland Park near the Major Deegan Expressway by a team conducting an archeological survey around 11:38 a.m., police said.
The surveyors were hunting for Revolutionary War artifacts, according to police, though it remains unclear what exactly they hoped to uncover.
General Washington’s retreat following his defeat at the Battle of Brooklyn saw the Continental Army flee through the Bronx while hounded by British Redcoats and German Hessian mercenaries in Aug. 1776.
The Battle of Pell’s Point, also known as the Battle of Pelham, was also fought throughout parts of modern-day Westchester and the Bronx, where revolutionaries under the command of American Col. John Glover fought a rear-guard action that allowed Washington to withdraw his army to White Plains and avoid being surrounded on Manhattan that October.
The NYPD is investigating the recovered remains.
