Roman stone coffin unearthed near Peterborough

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00:00This is ranked up there as one of the most exciting things we've found. The stone coffin

00:22is amazing, the archaeological work they're doing to look at it and explore it and find

00:28all the detail about it is really excellent. So as part of our archaeology process we do

00:33initial trial pits and we found some quite exciting archaeology whilst we were doing

00:36those trial pits. So we've always known there's some good archaeology on site, but finding

00:41the stone coffin there was extremely exciting. Archaeology is really important here at National

00:47Highways. We believe we have a commitment to understanding exactly what's in the area.

00:53We monitor this and review this very, very closely with our road schemes, but we think

00:59it's very important to capture information, that history as its connections to our past,

01:03and it's really important to forward that information to other generations. Wandsford

01:09obviously is quite special having found a small rural cemetery and at the centre of

01:14this small rural cemetery a stone coffin with a plaster burial. It's not a very common

01:19burial practice outside of urban centres, so it's very exciting for us. But also to

01:25be able to get that information out to places where people are accessing information, online

01:30videos and making it accessible for more people is really important to be able to share our

01:38discoveries with the public.