The assumption that any African person living in Britain at this time would have most likely been a slave is contradicted by the next discovery. Not only is she the first black Briton known to us, her discovery suggests that people from beyond the North African Roman border were also present in Britain at this time. Through modern forensic techniques including isotope analysis, radiocarbon dating and facial reconstruction, it was concluded that this lady had lived around 200-250 AD, was from a Roman area in the south-east of England, had died in her early twenties and had sub-Saharan African ancestry. It wasn’t until 2014 though that her identity was revealed. In 1953, an ancient skeleton was discovered in the East Sussex beauty spot of Beachy Head.