Ancient bones (The Restless Ghost)

Ancient bones are obtained by speaking to Father Aereck in Lumbridge Church after completion of The Restless Ghost quest. If you have already completed the quest prior to these bones being added to the game, you can receive them simply by talking to Father Aereck again.

The five bones are obtained as a reward and each bone gives 200 prayer experience when buried.

Ancient bones are the best bones in terms of xp per bone at the moment, beating Frost dragon bones by 20 exp. However, only 5 can be obtained from the Restless Ghost quest. In addition, they cannot be ground at the Ectofuntus, offered at a gilded altar, or have their experience boosted when buried after burning a Pyre ship. As a result, they are best treated either as a sort of experience lamp, or stored away in hopes of a Bonus XP weekend at a later date.

Trivia

 * Originally, you didn't obtain Ancient Bones as a reward for the Restless Ghost quest. Jagex added these bones to the reward to help players get used to burying bones.
 * During the Bonus XP weekends of 12–14 March 2010 and 3 September-7 2010, ancient bones could be buried for a maximum of 540 experience points, although quest experience rewards didn't multiply.
 * If you have the Game button set to filter on your HUD, the message "You dig a hole in the ground. You bury the bones.", will still appear when you bury the bones even though these messages do not normally appear when burying bones while on this setting.
 * If you try to grind Ancient Bones at the Ectofuntus, you will get a message saying "You have no bones suitable for grinding" or if you use the bones on the hopper at the Ectofuntus it will say "These bones are too special to grind."
 * If you try to offer Ancient Bones at an altar, you will get a message saying "You cannot offer these bones". This works at any altar, not just those in a player-owned house.
 * Only 5 Ancient Bones can be obtained by each player. After the player has buried all the bones or lost them, there is no way to re-obtain them.
 * Ancient Bones cannot be noted.
 * Unlike all other types of bones, POH servants will carry them.
 * Players who completed the Restless Ghost quest before the release of Ancient Bones will get the bones from Father Aereck even though they already got the prayer experience before, resulting in free experience for those players. Things similar to this also happen with other updated quests.
 * When used on the Wise Old Man he will say that he wouldn't know whether you should keep it or not since he can't identify items from members-only quests although the bones are obtained after completing the free-to-play quest The Restless Ghost.

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