Crypt of Medieval Knight Possibly Discovered

[Kowalski]

Family Crypt of Medieval Knight Possibly Discovered

Archaeologists have unearthed skeletal remains of eight people that may be the relatives of a medieval knight discovered under a parking lot last month in Scotland. The team uncovered one partial skeleton and seven complete skeletons, including one infant and an adult female.

The remains were all buried behind a wall in what may have been an ancient family burial crypt.

"This site just keeps getting more and more interesting, it is turning out to be a real treasure trove of archaeology," Ross Murray, a former student at the University of Edinburgh, said in a statement. "These new finds look likely to be the possible relations of the suspected Medieval knight we found earlier this year. The skull of the skeleton found immediately beneath the location of the knight looks like that of a female and the remains found on the other side of the ornate slab belong to an infant from the same period." [See Images of the Knight's Family Crypt]

Last month, archaeologists on hand at new building construction site unearthed a medieval skeleton under a parking lot in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. The skeleton was near a slab engraved with a Calvary cross and sword, markers of nobility.

Taken from http://news.yahoo.co...-172635610.html

Edited April 30, 2013 by Kowalski

[Keel M.]

They're always finding fun stuff.

[freetoroam]

The remains were all buried behind a wall in what may have been an ancient family burial crypt.

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This would not have been unusual. What worries me is how many family crypts will be uncovered in the future, for the interest of mankind?!

[Frank Merton]

I think it's outrageous when dead people take up perfectly good land.

[Ealdwita]

Re-post, sorry.....

http://www.unexplain...howtopic=244514

And it's still not a 'Calvary' cross!!!!!

Edited April 30, 2013 by ealdwita

[freetoroam]

I think it's outrageous when dead people take up perfectly good land.

yep, time to concrete the whole area and build and build and build and maybe throw in a MacDonalds too.

[calaf]

What's with the parking lots? Is there a society for archeological digs under car parks?