Extraordinary discovery of 12th century abbot's grave: 2012 technology could unmask his identity - and that of a ghost that roams the site
He - or at least his remains - survived Henry VIII's destruction of his abbey in 1537, eluded the grave-robbers that followed, and avoided discovery by Victorian archaeologists.
Even deep excavations and the underpinning of the crumbling building in the 1930s failed to unearth him.
But the abbot who headed Britain's second richest and most powerful Cistercian monastery may soon be unmasked - along with the identity, perhaps, of one of the site's ghosts.
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