A headless skeleton in a Roman limestone sarcophagus was found 10 feet below the St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in London. The sarcophagus dates to about 410 A.D. and was found "outside the boundaries researchers had established for London's Roman city walls.
The sarcophagus was made from a single piece of limestone from Oxfordshire or Northamptonshire, about 60 miles northwest of London, researchers said. The skeleton, headless and missing fingers, is a 5-foot-6-inch male who died in his 40s. Researchers speculated that Victorian workmen building a sewer stumbled upon the sarcophagus and took the head.
The site is about a mile west of the boundary of Roman London established by researchers, said Roman history expert Hedley Swain.
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