Within the rubble layer underneath the chancel, to the base, a large quantity of disarticulated human bone was uncovered. These comprised mainly long bones of femora, humeri, and tibiae relating to an earlier phase of burial inside the original chancel floor, a practice which became illegal during the c.19th. The remains were collected together and left in the Church for re-burial by the Church diocese.

Presumably, these originate from graves that had been situated below the chancel floor sometime before the move to make burial within the chancel floor illegal in the c.19th. They may belong to a similar period as the occupants of the brick burial vault, which probably dated to the latter half of 18th century. There was no evidence for grave cuts.

Laurence Platt and Victoria Owen, 2018, Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief at the Church of St. Helen, Trowell, Nottinghamshire (Unpublished document). SNT5881.