Montreal police are investigating bones discovered at the Turcot Interchange dig.

At 10:15 p.m. Tuesday a backhoe operator spotted something unusual in his shovel, and stopped to take a closer look.

He realized he had dug up several bones, and so called 9-1-1 to report the discovery.

Police collected the bones and fragments are are now trying to determine if the bones are human, or belong to animals.

It was last year at this location, near the intersection of Saint Remi St. and Cazelais St., where archeologists spent most of last summer excavating the remains of a tannery's foundation and collecting artifacts that are now kept at the Saint Gabriel Museum in Point St. Charles.

Earlier this month crews working a short distance away, at St. Jacques Blvd. and De Courcelles Rd., made another archeological discovery that is being examined.