It looks like great discoveries are made under parking lots! First the long lost remains of Richard III were discovered under a parking lot last year and now the remains of a knight or nobleman have been discovered under a Scottish parking lot!
The skeleton was discovered when construction was underway to built a rainwater harvesting tank for the University of Edinburgh’s new Edinburgh’s Centre for Carbon Innovation building.
Almost nothing is known about the remains so far except that they are dated to the 13th century, the person was about six feet tall (which is unusual for that time) and must have been a knight or some sort of nobleman because of the markings on the tombstone. The parking lot was the site of a monastery and only the most important people were buried so close to the church.
Archeologists are going to examine the bones and teeth to find out the age, gender and weather the person suffered from any diseases. They may even be able to tell how the person died, though they are suspected that it was a violent death since the medieval times were a particularly violent time.