The remains of a high-status Roman woman and a child in a lead coffin found in a cemetery including both Roman and Anglo-Saxon burials in Northern England.
A lead-lined coffin that was discovered in northern England could offer clues about the area’s transition from the Roman Empire to its Anglo-Saxon period.
The high-status female was discovered during a dig near Garforth, Leeds, in an extremely rare lead coffin, buried among 60 men, women and children who live more than a thousand years ago.
The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.
The skeleton of the unidentified woman, believed to be more th