Danish town plans for underground parking garage, finds long-lost medieval convent

Archaeologists in Denmark have finally pinpointed the remnants of a long lost 13th-century monastery, although its location may dismay local sports fans. With the help of ground-penetrating radar (GPR), researchers confirmed that traces of St. Clare’s Convent still exist roughly six feet beneath a soccer field in the town of Roskilde west of Copenhagen.“We knew that St. Clare’s Convent had been located here, but not how much of the complex from 1256 [CE] had been preserved,&rdq