In 1869, a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey puzzled archaeologists with a medieval cross on its lid; 157 years later, dating of the skeleton points to an 11th-century abbot, not the Roman named on the tomb

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• A Roman limestone sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey in London, excavated in 1869, bears an inscription for a fourth-century Briton named Valerius Amandinus but has a later Christian cross carved on its lid.
• An almost complete skeleton found inside in 2016 was dated by radiocarbon to between AD 987 and 1052, showing the coffin was reused in the late Anglo-Saxon period.