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Just a month after human remains were turned up during renovations of Holden Chapel, testing has revealed that the site is contaminated by arsenic, environmental experts said this week...
...according to Mandryk--who estimated that excavations will be finished today--the Holden Chapel site could give archaeologists the first clear look at academic life at Harvard in the early 19th century...
Sexton researched the building's history and discovered that it wasn't always a chapel. Between 1782 and 1850, part of the basement was used as an anatomy and dissection lecture hall for the Medical School...
...remarkable find has brought with it some logistical problems. The renovations of the chapel basement--which will create a classroom and modify rehearsal space for choral groups, among other things--have been stalled since the discovery. And there's no telling when workers will be able to start again...
...HUPD was told that skeletal remains had been discovered at an excavation project inside the Holden Chapel. The office of the chief medical examiner determined them to be over 100 years old. The site is being held for Harvard Archaeologists to remove them...