Archaeologists working on the HS2 project have unearthed three stone Roman busts at what could once have a mausoleum under a medieval church in Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire.
The archaeologists were in the final stages of the excavation at the site of the old St Mary’s Norman church when they made the finds. They were excavating a circular ditch around what was thought to be the foundations of an Anglo-Saxon tower.
As they dug down, they uncovered three stone busts which are stylistically Roman. Two of the busts comprise of a head and torso which had been split, and the other just the head. The two complete statues appear to be one female adult and one male adult, with an additional head of a child.
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