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Middle Ages · Europe, AD 500 to 1453 · 1 story

Medieval archaeology news: Vikings, castles and manuscripts

New discoveries from medieval Europe, AD 500 to 1453: Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, castles, churches and monasteries, manuscripts and the Black Death.

Carved Roman stone coffin in a gallery

1,000-year-old skeleton in Roman coffin at Westminster Abbey may be an Anglo-Saxon abbot

Radiocarbon dating places the man's remains between AD 987 and 1052, centuries after the stone coffin was carved for a wealthy Roman Briton.

A Roman stone coffin found close to Westminster Abbey, displayed in the Queen's Jubilee Gallery. Photo: maggie jones., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons