The bones were not in their original burial position. They had been moved, at some point, from wherever they first came to rest, and redeposited here, their earlier context lost to time and circumstance.

Forty-eight skeletal fragments were recovered in total, representing the remains of at least four individuals. The term "redeposited" is significant; it means the bones were not found in a primary grave but had been disturbed and relocated, probably more than once across the centuries, before ending up beneath that concrete extension. Pinning down exactly when this redeposition happened has proved difficult. What does offer some orientation is the location itself. The find site lies close to the original St Stephen's Leper Hospital, a medieval institution that would have maintained its own burial ground for patients who died in its care. Leprosy, or what medieval communities understood as leprosy, carried profound social and religious weight, and dedicated hospitals like St Stephen's served both to isolate the sick and to provide them with spiritual rites, including burial. The proximity of these remains to that site makes a medieval date plausible, though not certain.