Captain Matthew Flinders, the Royal Navy explorer who led the first circumnavigation of Australia and named the country, was buried under platform 15 at London Euston station, according to folklore.

But now his remains have been discovered nearby as part of the ongoing excavations for the HS2 railway.




Captain Flinders was identified among by a lead breast plate placed on top of his coffin when he was buried on July 23, 1814.

His remains were discovered at St James's Gardens burial ground and he will be reinterred with the rest of the buried population at a currently undecided location.

His headstone was lost during Euston's expansion in the 1840s, leading experts to think his remains were lost forever.





Photo of the breast plate in the ground.

Breast plate after cleaning.



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Captain Flinders, who is also credited with giving Australia its name, is one of tens of thousands of skeletons that will be removed from the burial ground in Euston where the HS2 rail route will be built.

The discovery so early in the dig has thrilled archaeologists who were not confident they would find the explorer among the 40,000 people interred there.

WHAT IS HS2 AND HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?




HS2 (High Speed 2) is a plan to construct a a new high-speed rail linking London, West Midlands, Leeds and Manchester.

The line is to be built in a 'Y' configuration. London will be on the bottom of the 'Y', Birmingham at the centre, Leeds at the top right and Manchester at the top left.

Work on Phase One began in 2017 and the government plans envisage the line being operational by 2026.

The HS2 project is being developed by High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd.

The project has a projected cost of £56 billion ($77 billion), up from the initial cost of £32.7 billion ($45 billion) in 2010.

History has been made!

The remains of another coloniser has been discovered

Explore for the data

Lol

Amazing Discovery...



Explorer on the beat..!

they won't let even the dead rest

explorer again

Hian

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I still don't understand how you name a land against the already existing name given by the aboriginals. that is just the height of white supremacy. disgusting

A country that works...

iRyan:
I still don't understand how you name a land against the already existing name given by the aboriginals. that is just the height of white supremacy. disgusting

The aboriginals did not have a name for Australia, they still call it Australia today. They do have their own place names, many of which carry the same name today (e.g. Uluru is preferred over Ayer's Rock).

AbujaBlue:


The aboriginals did not have a name for Australia, they still call it Australia today. They do have their own place names, many of which carry the same name today (e.g. Uluru is preferred over Ayer's Rock).

you are probably right. The premise of my point was affected by unchecked prejudice towards white people, for all the atrocities they have committed against mankind

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