Medieval knight 'Lancelot' and his stunning stone tomb found under ice cream shop in Poland

Archaeologists were surprised to discover the exceptional tomb of a medieval knight underneath an ice cream shop in the seaside Polish city of Gdansk. The 13th-century burial includes a rare carving that probably depicts the knight himself, Live Science has reported.

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"We discovered a large limestone tomb slab carved with the image of a knight in full chain-mail armour," Sylwia Kurzyska, an archaeologist with ArcheoScan who co-directed the excavation, told Live Science in an email. The carved slab is rare in medieval Poland because "only a few featured images of the deceased," she said.

Kurzyska and her team found the monument in the historic centre of Gdask in July, when they were excavating the grounds of a stronghold used from the 11th to the 14th centuries. Within the stronghold were the remains of a castle, a church and a cemetery.