"[We've always believed] it was a person of some significant status because there was originally an outer wooden coffin and an inner wooden coffin inside the lead one."
Over the years there has been speculation that it was the hair of a saint.
"The two saints are St Morwenna who was the first abbess here and St Ethelflaeda, who is our patron saint," Romsey's vicar, Reverend Canon Tim Sledge, explains.
"And I think that's the rather romantic, hopeful, aspirational thing about this. These two saints are unique to Romsey - no one else has ever heard of them. They are our two saintly celebrities."

"The radio carbon tests that we carried out suggest something in the mid to late Saxon era," Cameron reveals.
The fact that this person had a marine diet could be very specific to perhaps members of the Monastic community
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The results showed that the person almost certainly died sometime between the years 895 and 1123. To be slightly more specific, there is a 68.2% probability that the death occurred between 965 and 1045.
The tests also revealed what this person might have eaten.
"We managed to find signals which are indicative of marine protein, so fish," says Cameron.
And then there was the pine resin. "We can't tell whether that was something to do with the funerary ritual or hair care during life."