A Roman stone coffin was unearthed during works to upgrade a section of the A47 in Cambridgeshire.
It was found in a small Roman roadside cemetery discovered during National Highways’ scheme to upgrade a section of the A47 between Wansford and Sutton near Peterborough from a single to a dual carriageway.
Archaeologists from Headland Archaeology said the enormous hand-carved artefact weighs 750kg – the equivalent of an adult male polar bear. They said it had remained undisturbed since its burial in Roman times more than 1,500 years ago.
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