Last winter there was an extensive renovation project in St. Tugual’s Church.  There wasn’t time to complete all the work before visitors started arriving on Herm in the spring.  As soon as the hotel closed for this winter work re-started on St. Tugual’s.  The electricians have been and they were closely followed by the decorators. 

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The bones that were found during the digging for the drainage soakaway are now being studied by Guernsey based Jenny Cataroche who is an osteoarchaelogist.  Jenny works full-time for the states of Guernsey as an epidemiologist so in her spare time is working on the 38 skeletons that were found in the garden adjacent to the church.  Despite the poor state of the bones she hopes to be able to find out how old someone was when they died, how old the bones were and if the person had an illness such as arthritis or serious abscesses.  It takes about eight hours to analyse each skeleton, so details of the Herm finds might not be revealed until the middle of next year.

http://www.thisisguernsey.com/latest/2011/02/25/dem-bones/

http://www.thisisguernsey.com/latest/2011/03/19/video-herm-body-count-rises-to-two-dozen/