Mass Grave uncovered?

[Seadog]

I do not have the knowledge to confirm the provenance of the numbers on the maps but I would have thought that these did include those remains not recorded by the authories and found by the battlefield clearers. Perhaps a member will be able to clarify the situation. Whatever the answer it is almost impossible to imagine exacty what this (and other) areas looked like after the War It must have just been a sea of crosses or grave markers and this quote sums it up for me:

"High Wood stands in the centre of a vast cemetery. There is barely a portion of ground of the size of a tennis court in all that countryside which does not contain the grave of one or more British Soldiers"

[ianw]

I certainly understood that High Wood was not cleared.

As regards burials, surely for everyone which was marked, there would have been more that were not and I would have thought that the body density statistics accurate to single numbers must have referred to sets of remains actually recovered.