A parking lot doesn’t look like a king’s last refuge. In Leicester, however, researchers are interested in what the modern soil covers: the former convent of the Grey Friars, where Richard III was reportedly buried after his death in Bosworth.
The 2012 excavations uncovered human remains. The discovery is not just a stroke of luck attributable to a construction machine: it is part of a historical and archaeological investigation. Several types of analysis then contribute to the identification of the king.
The contrast strikes the imagination, but the tomb had obviously not been dug in a parking lot. It was the city that had changed around her. The place seemed banal because centuries had changed its setting, not because it had nothing to tell.
What we know
The discovery dates back to 2012; the identification is based on a bundle of evidence, not location alone.
To go to the source
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