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April 17, 2007
Reburying Roman Remains
This strikes me as an unusual story - correct me if I'm wrong - but some Roman period human remains were just reburied in London.
The remains of a teenage Roman girl who was buried in the City of London more than 1,500 years ago have been laid to rest in her original grave.
The girl's skeleton was discovered in 1995 when the Swiss Re building, better known as the gherkin, was being built.
For the next 12 years the body was housed at the Museum of London, after its discovery during an excavation.
I hadn't noticed anyone reburying (rather than filing in museum storage) human remains from groups that weren't protesting about it. It's also a little odd to think of her buried under the Swiss Re building.
Here's the original story - sorry, I posted this without the link. Someone of limited reading and reasoning skill left a vulgarly-worded comment I will not be publishing saying that she wasn't buried under the Gherkin, but that the Gherkin was built on top of her grave. Both are true, of course - the Gherkin was built on top of her grave but she has just been reburied in her original grave - therefore, under the Gherkin.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 17, 2007 12:29 PM