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Westminster Abbey's Roman Coffin Skeleton Likely an 11th-Century Abbot
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A skeleton found inside a Roman stone coffin at Westminster Abbey in London most likely belongs to an 11th-century abbot, an expert has said. The fourth-century sarcophagus, inscribed to a wealthy Roman named Valerius Amandinus, was reused centuries later. Archaeologist Warwick Rodwell says carbon dating and a carved Anglo-Saxon cross on the lid point to Abbot Aelfwig, who died around 1020, as its likely occupant.
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