The following excerpt is from the September 23, 2015 edition of Newser.com:
(NEWSER) – Workers demolishing a section of Westminster Abbey to make room for a new tower stumbled upon something most unexpected (at least in that part of the abbey): the remains of at least 50 people, including the skeleton of a 3-year-old, that archaeologists believe date back to the 11th and 12th centuries, the Guardian reports. The “skulls and leg bones stacked up into dense piles like firewood” were discovered under Victorian drainage pipes outside the wall of Poets’ Corner, where famous literary figures such as Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling are buried and where memorials have been erected to such notables as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen. The estimated date of the remains means the deceased may have witnessed the chaotic events of 1066 in England, including the Norman invasion, the Guardian notes.
