‘Flat-packed furniture for the next life’: Roman funerary bed found in London

First such piece to be found in Britain is incredibly well-made', say experts, and remarkably preserved

Archaeologists in London have made the exceptionally important" discovery of a complete wooden funerary bed, the first ever discovered in Britain.

The remarkably preserved bed, described as unparalleled" by experts, was excavated from the site of a former Roman cemetery near Holborn viaduct, central London, alongside five oak coffins. Prior to this dig, only three Roman timber coffins in total have been found in the capital.