Roman Sarcophagus found near Trafalgar Square, London England

Did you know that in 2006, a Roman sarcophagus containing a headless skeleton was found near Trafalgar Square, London. It was found during excavations at St. Martin-in-the-Field Church in central London. The find dates back to 410AD and it was outside the old Roman walls of London.

Taryn Nixon, the director of th Museum of London Archaeology Service said,"It means that perhaps St. Martin-in-the-Fields has been a sacred site for far, far, far longer than we previously thought. This gives us an extraordinary glimpse of parts of London we haven't seen before, particularly Roman and Saxon London."This was a monumental archaeological discovery in 2006 that gave us a different point of view about what Roman London was like two-thousand years ago.