Westminster Abbey uncovers hundreds of buried monks

Photograph: Westminster Abbey. A lost medieval sacristy (a room in a church where a priest prepares for a service, and where vestments and articles of worship are kept.) used by 13th-century monks has been uncovered in the grounds of Westminster Abbey along with the bones of hundreds, if not thousands, of buried bodies. “You do have to be careful where you’re walking,” said archaeologist Chris Mayo, pointing to a fragment of skull poking out of the sandy soil. “You can see from the ground there are burials everywhere.”