Explorer was buried in home town after his remains were found during construction of UK’s high speed rail
The small sheet of lead, which once adorned a coffin that was lost under London for 200 years, now sits in a slick new building in the Adelaide CBD.
“Capt. Matthew Flinders RN, died 19 July 1814, aged 40 years,” it says, the ornate writing legible despite signs of age.
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