Roman coffin at Westminster Abbey holds a medieval skeleton

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA Roman sarcophagus found at Westminster Abbey held the skeleton of a man who was probably an eleventh-century abbot, an archaeologist says, the Guardian reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo a medieval guy is in a Roman coffin? Whose coffin is it?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe inscription names a wealthy Briton called Valerius Amandinus, and his sons Valerius Superventor and Marcellus made it for him.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, and where is he?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNo trace of his own burial has turned up at Westminster.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe coffin was found in the eighteen hundreds, and the lid was in six pieces.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo his sons paid for the premium plan and a stranger got the account. Somebody took over his handle.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call it a legacy transition. The coffin simply found its next chapter, and the abbot was carbon-dated between nine eighty-seven and ten fifty-two.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe identification isn't certain, though. The new study only says he's likely the abbot.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the sons carved their names in stone, and a thousand years later it's still somebody else's.