October
26
/ 2013
A metal detecting club in England has stumbled upon a 1,700-year-old lead coffin in a field in Leicestershire, two miles aware from the site of a Roman settlement and fort. The coffin is thought to have belonged to a wealthy Roman family and would have cost the equivalent of £200,000. “I cannot describe how it feels to find something like this. You spend hours walking around fields, sometimes with little reward and then you find something this,” said Chris Wright, who discovered the coffin. “We had been at it all day and then got a signal - it was quite deep so I "ummed and ahhed" about whether to just ignore it and move on”. Fortunately, Wright decided to follow
