Beachy Head Lady
AAs part of the Eastbourne Ancestors project, 300 sets of human remains were exhumed from Anglo-Saxon cemeteries and reexamined. The Beachy Head Lady was an ancient skeleton unearthed in Beachy Head, East Sussex, England. Her remains were found inside of two boxes labelled "Beachy Head, something to do with 1956 or 1959." She lived during the Roman period and to was believed to have originated from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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