By Shan Ross, The Scotsman, March 13, 2013

The remains of a medieval knight have been discovered underneath a car park that is being demolished at a city-centre building site. The skeleton was found in Edinburgh’s Old Town after archaeologists uncovered the corner of an elaborately decorated sandstone slab bearing markings of a member of the nobility – the carvings of the Calvary Cross and an ornate sword. An excavation of the immediate area uncovered the adult skeleton [....]

The discovery is being hailed as having the potential to be “one of the most significant and exciting archaeological discoveries in the city for years”.

The find comes just a month after a skeleton unearthed in a car park in Leicester was confirmed as being that of the English king Richard III [....]

The knight’s remains have also revealed the exact location of Blackfriars Monastery, which was founded in 1230 by Alexander II – king of Scotland from 1214 to 1249 – before it was destroyed during the Reformation [....]

But wait, there's more medieval skeletons paved over in the UK:

Construction Crews May Have Found 'Black Plague' Victims In Britain
By Korva Coleman, The Two-Way @ NPR.org, March 15, 2013

What can you find underneath a British railroad or parking lot? These days it could be skeletons, and probably a lot of them. Last month, researchers announced the bones of a man discovered underneath a British parking lot were actually King Richard III. Today, a British rail project says some of its staff stumbled upon skeletons of people who may have died of the Black Death nearly 700 years ago, during an outbreak of bubonic plague.

Thirteen skeletons were found lying in two neat rows about eight feet beneath the road in central London, as workers surveyed land for the Crossrail project, a transportation effort that's building new rail lines for London. It's believed they're from a bubonic plague outbreak in 1348 [....]