"Roman lady is London’s highest-status burial" Topic

"Spitalfields market in London's East End was excavated between 1991 and 2007, an ambitious undertaking that opened the largest area of London ever to be archaeologically explored at one time. Finds ranged in date from Roman London to the late 19th century, and it has taken another 13 years to fully document, conserve, research and publish the more than 6,000 artifacts, 174 Roman burials and 10,500 medieval burials unearthed at the site during the 16 years of excavations.

In the Roman era, what would become the Spitalfields area was a burial ground outside the city walls now known as the northern cemetery. A total of 493 burials have been documented at the cemetery. One burial, unearthed in 1999, was an immediate standout: a stone sarcophagus containing a lead sarcophagus which in turn contained the remains of a young woman from the late 4th century. It was the first unopened sarcophagus to be discovered in London for more than a century. That it held a second coffin, an extremely rare lead one at that, made it even more significant…"

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Armand

Wonder why she's lying so crooked…

Traffic, construction, The Blitz…plenty of things over time to cause vibrations, plus the removal of the sarcophagus from the ground, I'd suspect, Bill.

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