Construction workers on Sharon Lane in Pembroke made a grisly discovery this week when a human skeleton was unearthed at a building site.

Police were called to the construction site at about 2.10 p.m. on Wednesday by Island Construction workers who had unearthed what they believed to be bones from a human skeleton.

The bones were found about eight feet below ground level.

Police spokesman Dwayne Caines said the skeletal remains were thought to be quite old and Dr. Clifford Smith, an archaeologist from the Bermuda Maritime Museum was called in.

Dr. Smith, who is currently working on the Port Royal archaeological dig, said yesterday that an expert and students from Canada were currently in Bermuda, which was lucky for both him and the Police.

He said Dr. John Tritgs had experience in analysing bones and would be working on them, but what he did know so far was that the bones belonged to an elderly male who suffered from arthritis and had broken an arm at some stage of his life.

"The teeth were also very worn down which a sign of old age," he said.

He said it appeared to have been a grave, but would know more once he had the report from Dr. Tritgs.