Local historians are in awe of the recent discovery of skeletal remains, uncovered during an archaeological dig at a battlefield in Red Bank Battlefield Park. Rowan University researchers say they uncovered the remains of 13 Hessian soldiers — German auxiliary troops who aided the British Army during the Revolutionary War. The soldiers fought in the Battle of Red Bank 245 years ago. They also found musket balls, rare coins and pieces of soldiers’ uniforms.
“Finding something like this, literally in somebody’s backyard, just goes to show how much public history we have in this area that we don’t know about,” said Raluca Muscan, a history major at Rowan University.
