Rail dig finds explorer Flinders’ remains (BBC)

The remains of explorer Captain Matthew Flinders have been identified by archaeologists working on the HS2 project in a London burial ground.

Captain Flinders led the first circumnavigation of Australia and is credited with naming the country.

Some 61,000 skeletons will be removed from St James’s Gardens, where the station for the HS2 rail route will be built near London Euston station.

A recently discovered coffin showed the captain was buried on 23 July 1814.

The dig began in October – one of 60 archaeological sites between London and Birmingham being explored prior to the construction of the £55bn high-speed rail line. Read more