Staff at a Scottish museum are wrapping their heads around an “unbelievable incident” that occurred when a group of visitors placed a child inside an 800-year-old coffin to take pictures.
The Prittlewell Priory Museum was busy on Aug. 4 when the group lifted the child over a clear plastic barrier. Once the child was inside, the coffin flew off it’s base and tumbled, breaking off a chunk of limestone.
“Staff heard a thump and that was the first indication something had happened,” Claire Reed, the museum’s conservator, said.
“It was one of those isolated, terrible incidents,” she added.
Prittlewell Priory Museum
