5 wooden coffins found at sewer line

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Archeologists have unearthed five wooden coffins at a site found by a crew putting in a new sewer line.

State archeologist Richard Boisvert said he does not know what will be done with the remains, which could prove difficult to identify. An old map identifies the site as possibly part of a large burial ground used for blacks in the 1700s.

"We are, in essence, still in the middle of it," Boisvert said.