The oldest known tombstone in the US belonged to an English knight and likely came from Belgium , according to a new study that sheds more light on trade routes linked to colonial America.
Archeologists have known the tombstone belonged to a knight and was set up in 1627 in Jamestown , Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. But it was unclear where exactly in Europe the slab made of black limestone came from.
The new study, published recently in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology , assessed the carvings and inlays of the tombstone to trace its origins…