Blenheim Palace discovers marble ‘flowerpot’ is actually £300k Roman coffin after antiques dealer spots during chance visit
I once ran a LEADER consultation in a stable at Blenheim Palace – I noticed the place was so grand it had fine art for the horses to look at. On that basis this story comes as absolutely no surprise. It tells us:
Bleinheim Palace have discovered that a marble flowerpot that has been in use for the last 100 years is actually a Roman sarcophagus worth £300,000.
The ancient sarcophagus – or stone coffin – was only discovered by chance after an antiques expert visited the stately home.
The marble creation had been exposed to the elements. for the last century and used to grow tulips in in the rock garden of Sir Winston Churchill’s birthplace in Oxfordshire
Prior to that it had spent 100 years as a makeshift water feature, since the 5th Duke of Marlborough obtained it in the sarcophagus in the 19th century.