“His tomb was elaborately decorated with brass engravings depicting all sorts of animals contemporaneous to his time such as a bat, dog, pig, fish, eels, etc.
“But found among all these real and, to this very day, common animals, are depictions of two other real animals: dinosaurs.”
The creatures in question appear on a brass band set into the stone of the tomb’s cover.
At first glance, the creatures appear to resemble a member of the sauropod family, which included the famous Brachiosaurus and Brontosaurus.
The creatures stand on four thick legs and boast long and necks and coiled tails.
Professor Meyer said: “Sauropods are a group of dinosaurs that had very long necks, long tails, small heads and four thick, pillar-like legs.
“They are famous for their sheer size, being among the largest animals to ever roam the Earth.
“The engravers of these dinosaurs did not have the benefit of studying dinosaur fossils or reconstructions of dinosaur skeletons in museums.
“If dinosaurs became extinct 77 million years before man evolved on the earth, how did these English Middle Age artisans know how to accurately depict them?
