Roman Lead Coffin Found To Contain Child’s Remains

Experts with West Yorkshire Archaeological Services, who conducted the excavations, initially identified the remains in the coffin as belonging to a woman, aged 25 to 35 at death, who was buried wearing a bracelet, glass bead necklace and a finger ring or earring. It is believed she was of high status, perhaps an aristocrat during Rome's occupation of Britain, which lasted from A.D. 43 to A.D. 410.