Meet Abby, a traveling barkeologist whos helping uncover a centuries-old hidden cemetery [Video]

HANOVER, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) – Archeologists are enlisting the help of a “barkeologist” named Abby to identify unmarked graves in Virginia.

Abby is a six-year-old chocolate lab trained to sniff out centuries-old human remains.

The National Park Service hired Abby through Martin Archaeology Consulting to help locate a hidden cemetery at Richmond National Battlefield Park.

The owner and principal archeologist of the company, Paul Martin, travels all over the country with Abby doing this sort of work.

“She is well-traveled,” Martin said. “She is really my fourth dog to kind of specialize in the older archeological human remains detection.”

The property in Hanover, also known as Rural Plains, is a 125-acre farm that belonged to the Shelton family for 300 years.

“A lot of history,” Richmond National Battlefield archeologist Lexie Lowe said. “It’s alleged that in the front room on the first floor of this …