The Drybread Cemetery Trust approached the university and Southern Archaeology Ltd for assistance in learning more about the cemetery’s unmarked graves and inconclusive records, and locating unrecorded burial plots in areas suspected of containing human graves. It would involve locating unmarked graves, exhuming and relocating some of their contents, and surveying and archaeological analysis of the site. The project would also involve searching for the Drybread settlement site. The earliest recorded burial at the Drybread Cemetery was in 1870, but informal burials also took place in the early 1860s. "We can learn a lot about early-settler life in New Zealand, and answer key questions to help the Trust maintain the cemetery site with confidence into the future."

Source: Otago Daily Times October 16, 2020 15:31 UTC