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Read the storyFrom the BBN segment “Roman Coffin at Westminster Abbey Likely Held a Medieval Abbot”, cut down to under a minute.
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Hank LedgerA Roman stone coffin dug up at Westminster Abbey in eighteen sixty-nine probably held a medieval abbot, not a Roman, according to new research, Smithsonian Magazine reports.
Dale BearmanSo somebody took a Roman's coffin and moved an abbot into it.
Hank LedgerThe lid was inscribed to a man named Valerius Amandinus. Someone recut it with a Latin cross nearly six feet tall.
Hank LedgerRadiocarbon dating put the new occupant between nine eighty-seven and ten fifty-two.
Dale BearmanThen he was evicted from his own coffin, and his name stayed on the lid like a bad review.
Hank LedgerThe skeleton was thought to have disappeared. It turned up in twenty sixteen, almost complete, when the coffin reached a conservation studio.
Dale BearmanThey lost a whole man for a hundred and forty-seven years?
Hank LedgerRodwell says the identity cannot be answered with certainty, and that there are two viable contenders. Almost certainly an abbot, though.
Dale BearmanI assume the abbey's position is, he was in there when we got there. Nobody checked the lid.
Hank LedgerMine is that a monk in the year one thousand saw a free coffin and took it. I'd have done the same.
Hank LedgerValerius Amandinus has his name on the lid. Nobody's asked him a single question.
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