Roman Coffin at Westminster Abbey Likely Held a Medieval Abbot

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA 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.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo somebody took a Roman's coffin and moved an abbot into it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe lid was inscribed to a man named Valerius Amandinus. Someone recut it with a Latin cross nearly six feet tall.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRadiocarbon dating put the new occupant between nine eighty-seven and ten fifty-two.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThen he was evicted from his own coffin, and his name stayed on the lid like a bad review.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe skeleton was thought to have disappeared. It turned up in twenty sixteen, almost complete, when the coffin reached a conservation studio.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThey lost a whole man for a hundred and forty-seven years?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRodwell says the identity cannot be answered with certainty, and that there are two viable contenders. Almost certainly an abbot, though.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI assume the abbey's position is, he was in there when we got there. Nobody checked the lid.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMine is that a monk in the year one thousand saw a free coffin and took it. I'd have done the same.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorValerius Amandinus has his name on the lid. Nobody's asked him a single question.