St Bees Man

St Bees Man is the name given, in lieu of a known identity when discovered, to the extremely well preserved body of a mediaeval man, discovered in the grounds of St Bees Priory in 1981, during an archaeological dig by the University of Leicester on the site of the ruined chancel aisle, built about 1300. His identity has subsequently been established as Anthony de Lucy, 3rd Baron Lucy, who died in 1368, probably killed on crusade at New Kaunas, in what is now Lithuania.

St Bees Man

St Bees Man is the name given, in lieu of a known identity when discovered, to the extremely well preserved body of a mediaeval man, discovered in the grounds of St Bees Priory in 1981, during an archaeological dig by the University of Leicester on the site of the ruined chancel aisle, built about 1300. His identity has subsequently been established as Anthony de Lucy, 3rd Baron Lucy, who died in 1368, probably killed on crusade at New Kaunas, in what is now Lithuania.